pliability

English

Noun

pliability (countable and uncountable, plural pliabilities)

1. The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness.
   • 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 2, page 245:

     A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent.

Translations

being pliable

• Bulgarian: пластичност (bg) f (plastičnost), ковкост (bg) f (kovkost)
• Finnish: taipuvuus (fi), joustavuus (fi), taipuisuus (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Biegsamkeit f, Geschmeidigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ευκαμψία (el) f (efkampsía), ευλυγισία (el) f (evlygisía)
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• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: so-lhoobaght f, lhoobaght f
• Polish: elastyczność (pl) f, giętkość (pl) f, sprężystość (pl) f
• Romanian: pliabilitate f

References

• “pliability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.