Flexibility \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.
[1913 Webster]
All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flexibility
n 1: the property of being flexible [syn: flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility]
2: the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the
flexibility of his working arrangement" [ant: inflexibility]
3: the trait of being easily persuaded [syn: tractability, tractableness]
[ant: intractability]
WordNet (r) 2.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexibility":
Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, 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, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
flexibleness, tractability, tractableness
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