'Flexibility' definitions:
Definition of 'flexibility'
(from WordNet)
noun
The property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped [syn: flexibility, flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility, inflexibleness]
noun
The quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement" [syn: flexibility, flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness]
noun
The trait of being easily persuaded [syn: tractability, tractableness, flexibility] [ant: intractability, intractableness]
Definition of 'Flexibility'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'flexibility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Renaissance man,
- Renaissance versatility,
- 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