neuter
the state of not being amenable to criticism or advice, of being refractory, intractable
Dovacassa (neuter) [contamination of Sanskrit °daurvacasya evil speech and *daurvratya disobedience, defiance] unruliness, indocility, bad conduct, fractiousness S II 204 f. (°karaṇā dhammā); M I 95 (the same specified); A II 147; III 178; Nett 40, 127.
(nt, nt, abstr, from dubbaca) obstinance; stubbornness; mulishness; wilfulness [lit.] hard to talk to state Construction: dur > do + √vac + as + *ya duvacas + *ya