intransigence

/inˈtransəjəns/ or /inˈtranzəjəns/
noun

1. refusal to change one’s views or to agree about something

The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone — stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth.

– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer