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
• Russian: гибкость (ru) (gíbkost’) f
• Spanish: flexibilidad (es) f
• Turkish: esneklik (tr), elastikiyet (tr)