suppleness

English

Etymology

From supple +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

suppleness (usually uncountable, plural supplenesses)

1. The quality of being supple; litheness.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations‎^[1]:

     Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

Translations

the quality of being supple

• Dutch: soepelheid (nl) f, lenigheid (nl) f
• Finnish: notkeus (fi)
• French: souplesse (fr) f

  Middle French: soupplesse f

• Georgian: მოქნილობა (mokniloba)
• German: Geschmeidigkeit (de) f, Flexibilität (de) f
• Irish: aclaíocht f, leabhaireacht f, lúfaireacht f, solúbthacht f, umhlóid f
• Italian: flessuosità f
• Latin: mollitia f, mollitūdō f, mollitiēs f
• Manx: lhoobid m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smidighet (no) m or f

• Polish: gibkość (pl) f, elastyczność (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: савѝтљиво̄ст f

  Roman: savìtljivōst (sh) f

• Swedish: smidighet (sv) c