BALKINESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("balkiness" is a kind of...):

intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)

Derivation:

balky (stopping short and refusing to go on)

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