Etymology
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From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Pronunciation
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flexibility (countable and uncountable, plural flexibilities)
- The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
- Synonyms: pliability, suppleness, versatility
2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies.
- The quality of having options.
- I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
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Translations
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quality of being flexible
- Albanian: epshmëri f
- Arabic: مُرُونة (ar) (murūna)
- Armenian: ճկունություն (hy) (čkunutʻyun)
- Catalan: flexibilitat (ca) f
- Czech: ohebnost f
- Danish: bøjelighed c, fleksibilitet c, smidighed c
- Esperanto: fleksebleco
- Finnish: joustavuus (fi)
- French: souplesse (fr) f, flexibilité (fr) f
- Galician: flexibilidade (gl) 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 (ja) (jūnansei), 可撓性 (katōsei), フレキシビリティ (furekishibiriti)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: çemînbarî
- 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
- Thai: ความยืดหยุ่น (kwaam-yʉ̂ʉt-yùn)
- Turkish: esneklik (tr), elastikiyet (tr)
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