flexibility

3 definitions found

flexibility - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

flexibility - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flexibility
      n 1: the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped [syn:
           flexibility, flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility,
           inflexibleness]
      2: the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the
         flexibility of his working arrangement" [syn: flexibility,
         flexibleness] [ant: inflexibility, rigidity,
         rigidness]
      3: the trait of being easily persuaded [syn: tractability,
         tractableness, flexibility] [ant: intractability,
         intractableness]

flexibility - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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