flexibility

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Etymology

From Latin flexibilitās, from flectō (“I bend, curve”).

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Noun

flexibility (countable and uncountable; plural flexibilities)

1. The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
2. The quality of having options. "I have some flexibility."

Related terms

• flex
• labour market flexibility
• low temperature flexibility

Translations

quality of being flexible

Albanian: epshmëri (sq) f. Armenian: ճկունություն (hy) (č̣kunut’yun) Catalan: flexibilitat (ca) f. Czech: ohebnost (cs) f. Esperanto: fleksebleco (eo) Finnish: joustavuus (fi) French: souplesse (fr) f., flexibilité (fr) f.

German: Flexibilität (de) f. Italian: flessibilità (it) f. Japanese: 柔軟性 (ja) (jūnansei), 可撓性 (ja) (katōsei), フレキシビリティ (ja) (furekishibiriti) Latin: flexibilitās (la) f. Manx: so-lhoobaght (gv) f., so-vioraght (gv) f. Romanian: flexibilitate (ro) f. Spanish: flexibilidad (es) f. Turkish: esneklik (tr), elastikiyet (tr)