Pliability

3 definitions found

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

  Pliability \Pli`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
     The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as,
     pliability of disposition. "Pliability of movement." --Sir W.
     Scott.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pliability
       n 1: the property of being easily bent without breaking [syn: {bendability}]
       2: the quality of being easily adaptable [syn: {pliancy}, {pliantness}]

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

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "pliability":
     abulia, acquiescence, adaptability, agreeability, agreeableness,
     alacrity, amenability, aptitude, aptness, ardor, bendability,
     biddability, brightness, cheerful consent, cleverness,
     compliableness, compliance, consent, convenience, cooperativeness,
     cowardice, docility, ductibility, ductility, eagerness,
     educability, elasticity, enthusiasm, extendibility, extensibility,
     facility, faintheartedness, faintness, favorable disposition,
     favorableness, fear, feasibility, feeblemindedness, feebleness,
     fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, formativeness,
     forwardness, frailty, gameness, give, goodwill, handiness,
     impressionability, infirmity, intelligence, limberness, litheness,
     malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability,
     moldability, motivation, plasticity, pliancy, practicality,
     promptness, quickness, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness,
     receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, sensibility,
     sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, spinelessness, springiness,
     submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility,
     teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, tractability,
     tractility, trainableness, ungrudgingness, unloathness,
     unreluctance, untroublesomeness, weak will, weak-mindedness,
     weakness, wieldableness, wieldiness, willing ear, willing heart,
     willingness, willowiness, yieldingness, zeal, zealousness