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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun flexibility has 3 senses
- flexibility(n = noun.attribute) flexibleness - the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped; Array is a kind of malleability, plasticity
- flexibility(n = noun.attribute) flexibleness - the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement" is a kind of adaptability
- flexibility(n = noun.attribute) tractability, tractableness - the trait of being easily persuaded; Array is a kind of trait
has particulars: bendability, pliability, whip
Derived forms adjective flexible4, adjective flexible2
Antonym: inflexibility
has particulars: wiggle room
Derived form adjective flexible3
Antonym: inflexibility
has particulars: manageability, manageableness, docility, domestication, tameness, amenability, amenableness, cooperativeness, obedience
Derived form adjective flexible5
CIDE DICTIONARY
flexibility, 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."
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THESAURUS
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, yieldingnessROGET THESAURUS
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Facility
N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.Elasticity
N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.
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