Flexibility

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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