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flexibility

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CIDE DICTIONARY

flexibilityn. [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."  [1913 Webster]

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, yieldingness

ROGET THESAURUS

flexibility

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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