pliability

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pli=a=bil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

pliability, n. 

 The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.  Sir W. Scott.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

pliability

abulia, acquiescence, adaptability, agreeability, agreeableness, alacrity, amenability, aptitude, aptness, ardor, bendability, biddability, brightness, cheerful consent, cleverness, compliableness, compliance, consent, convenience, cooperativeness, cowardice, docility, ductibility, ductility, eagerness, educability, elasticity, enthusiasm, extendibility, extensibility, facility, faintheartedness, faintness, favorable disposition, favorableness, fear, feasibility, feeblemindedness, feebleness, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, formativeness, forwardness, frailty, gameness, give, goodwill, handiness, impressionability, infirmity, intelligence, limberness, litheness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, moldability, motivation, plasticity, pliancy, practicality, promptness, quickness, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, spinelessness, springiness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, tractability, tractility, trainableness, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, untroublesomeness, weak will, weak-mindedness, weakness, wieldableness, wieldiness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, willowiness, yieldingness, zeal, zealousness

ROGET THESAURUS

pliability

Willingness

N willingness, voluntariness, willing mind, heart, disposition, inclination, leaning, animus, frame of mind, humor, mood, vein, bent, penchant, aptitude, docility, docibleness, persuasibleness, persuasibility, pliability, geniality, cordiality, goodwill, alacrity, readiness, earnestness, forwardness, eagerness, asset, compliance, pleasure, gratuitous service, labor of love, volunteer, volunteering, willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable, favorably- minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed, nothing loth, in the vein, in the mood, in the humor, in the mind, ready, forward, earnest, eager, bent upon, predisposed, propense, docile, persuadable, persuasible, suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going, tractable, genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty, content, voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous, unasked &c (ask), unforced, willingly, fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul, with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms, with good will, with right will, de bonne volonte, ex animo, con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace, a la bonne heure, by all means, by all manner of means, to one's heart's content, yes.

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.