flexibility

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French flexibilité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  flexibilitās, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

flexibility (countable and uncountable, plural flexibilities)

1. The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
2. The quality of having options.

   I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.

Derived terms

• heteroflexibility
• homoflexibility
• labour market flexibility
• low temperature flexibility
• semiflexibility
• ultraflexibility
• waxy flexibility

 

Related terms

• flex

Translations

quality of being flexible

• Albanian: epshmëri f
• Armenian: ճկունություն (hy) (čkunutʻyun)
• Catalan: flexibilitat (ca) f
• Czech: ohebnost f
• Danish: bøjelighed c, fleksibilitet c, smidighed c
• Esperanto: fleksebleco
• Arabic: مُرُونة (ar) (murūna)
• Finnish: joustavuus (fi)
• French: souplesse (fr) f, flexibilité (fr) f
• Georgian: მოქნილობა (mokniloba), დრეკადობა (dreḳadoba)
• German: Flexibilität (de) f
• Greek: ευελιξία (el) f (evelixía), ευκαμψία (el) f (efkampsía)
• Hebrew: גְּמִישׁוּת (he) f (gmishút)
• Italian: flessibilità (it) f
• Japanese: 柔軟性 (jūnansei), 可撓性 (katōsei), フレキシビリティ (furekishibiriti)
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• Latin: flexibilitās f
• Manx: so-lhoobaght f, so-vioraght f
• Maori: ngohengohenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fleksibilitet m, bøyelighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: fleksibilitet m

• Portuguese: flexibilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: flexibilitate (ro) f
• Russian: ги́бкость (ru) f (gíbkostʹ)
• Spanish: flexibilidad (es) f
• Swedish: flexibilitet (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkahutukin
• Turkish: esneklik (tr), elastikiyet (tr)