FLEXIBILITY

Source: 566, 567

flexibility|flexibleness. Flexibility, or Flexibleness, n. pliancy, compliance

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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. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.