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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped;
[syn: flexibility, flexibleness]

2. the quality of being adaptable or variable;
- Example: "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement"
[syn: flexibility, flexibleness]

3. the trait of being easily persuaded;
[syn: tractability, tractableness, flexibility]


The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
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