Meaning of FLEXIBILITY
| Pronunciation: | | fl`eksub'ilutee
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- [n] the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement"
- [n] the trait of being easily persuaded
- [n] the property of being flexible
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| | Synonyms: | | flexibleness, tractability, tractableness |
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| | Antonyms: | | inflexibility, inflexibleness, intractability, intractableness, rigidity | | |
| | See Also: | | adaptability, amenability, amenableness, bendability, cooperativeness, docility, domestication, malleability, manageability, manageableness, obedience, plasticity, pliability, tameness, trait | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flex`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. flexibilitas: cf. F.
flexibilite.]
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness;
pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of
hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
--Sir I. Newton.
All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption, adjustability, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, all-roundedness, alterability, ambidexterity, amenability, bendability, biddability, bounce, bounciness, buoyance, buoyancy, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compliableness, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, convenience, conventionality, correspondence, docility, ductibility, ductility, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility, facility, feasibility, fictility, flexility, flexuousness, fluidity, formativeness, give, handiness, harmony, impermanence, impressionability, keeping, limberness, line, litheness, liveliness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, many-sidedness, mobility, modifiability, moldability, movability, mutability, nonstrictness, nonuniformity, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, permutability, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, practicality, rebound, receptiveness, reconcilement, reconciliation, Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, rubberiness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, snap, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strictness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, tensileness, tensility, tone, tonicity, tonus, tractability, tractility, traditionalism, transience, transitoriness, unaustereness, undemandingness, unharshness, uniformity, unsevereness, unsternness, unstrictness, untroublesomeness, versatility, wieldableness, wieldiness, willowiness, yieldingness |
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