Intransigence is absolute refusal to shift your position. Met with intransigence, the intransigence of both sides, sheer intransigence.
It is always the other side's word, since your own refusal is principle. It came into English through French from a Spanish political faction that would not compromise.
1nounintransigenceAbsolute refusal to shift your position.
“The union's intransigence meant the strike dragged on for months.”
intransigence is a stubbornness.
French intransigeance comes from Spanish intransigente, used of a faction that refused to compromise.
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From French intransigeance, noun form of intransigeant, borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. Morphologically, from in- + transiger + -ant, literally "uncompromising".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA