balkiness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]balkiness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being balky or uncooperative.
- 1961, Robert A. Heinlein, chapter 36, in Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC, page 391:
- […] he was mildly annoyed to find that the chair shifted itself—remote control over objects was a labor-saver and probably a money-saver […] and obviously to be preferred to the blind balkiness of mechanical gadgets. Nevertheless Jubal was not used to telecontrol done without wires or waves […]