flexibility
English
Etymology
From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”).
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Noun
flexibility (countable and uncountable, plural flexibilities)
- The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
- The quality of having options.
- I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
Derived terms
- heteroflexibility
- homoflexibility
- labour market flexibility
- low temperature flexibility
- semiflexibility
- ultraflexibility
- waxy flexibility
Related terms
Translations
quality of being flexible
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