flexibility
NounUS[flek-suh-bil-uh-tee]/ˌflɛksəˈbɪləti/5 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)
- the property of being flexible; easily bent or shapedSynonyms: flexiblenessOpposite inflexibilityType of malleability, plasticityKinds turnability, whip, bendability
- the quality of being adaptable or variable“he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement”Synonyms: flexiblenessOpposite inflexibilityType of adaptabilityKinds wiggle room
- the trait of being easily persuadedSynonyms: tractabilitytractablenessType of traitKinds manageability, amenability, docility, obedience, tamenessAttribute of tractable, intractable
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Translations
Noun quality of being flexible
- Spanish
- flexibilidad
- French
- flexibilité
- German
- Flexibilität
- Italian
- flessibilità
- Portuguese
- flexibilidade
- Turkish
- esneklik
- Russian
- ги́бкость gíbkostʹ
- Chinese
- 灵活性 línghuóxìng
- Japanese
- 柔軟性 jūnansei
- Dutch
- flexibiliteit
16 more languages
- Polish
- elastyczność
- Swedish
- flexibilitet
- Greek
- ευελιξία evelixía
- Indonesian
- fleksibilitas
- Portuguese (PT)
- flexibilidade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 靈活性 línghuóxìng
- Albanian
- epshmëri
- Catalan
- flexibilitat
- Czech
- ohebnost
- Danish
- fleksibilitet
- Esperanto
- fleksebleco
- Finnish
- joustavuus
- Georgian
- მოქნილობა mokniloba
- Hebrew
- גְּמִישׁוּת gmishút
- Norwegian
- fleksibilitet
- Romanian
- flexibilitate
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Flex′i·bil′i·ty noun
Origin: 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 Isaac Newton
All the flexibility of a veteran courtier.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54