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Noun [English]

Audio: en-us-flexibility.ogg Forms: flexibilities [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlɪti Etymology: From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|flexibilité}} French flexibilité, {{der|en|LL.|flexibilitās}} Late Latin flexibilitās, {{der|en|la|flectō||I bend, curve}} Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”), {{suffix|en|flexible|ity}} flexible + -ity, {{suffix|en|flex|ibility}} flex + -ibility Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} flexibility (countable and uncountable, plural flexibilities)
  1. The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: pliability, suppleness, versatility
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  2. The quality of having options. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: heteroflexibility, homoflexibility, labour market flexibility, low temperature flexibility, semiflexibility, ultraflexibility, waxy flexibility Related terms: flex Translations (quality of being flexible): epshmëri [feminine] (Albanian), مُرُونة (murūna) (Arabic), ճկունություն (čkunutʻyun) (Armenian), flexibilitat [feminine] (Catalan), ohebnost [feminine] (Czech), bøjelighed [common-gender] (Danish), fleksibilitet [common-gender] (Danish), smidighed [common-gender] (Danish), fleksebleco (Esperanto), joustavuus (Finnish), souplesse [feminine] (French), flexibilité [feminine] (French), flexibilidade [feminine] (Galician), მოქნილობა (mokniloba) (Georgian), დრეკადობა (dreḳadoba) (Georgian), Flexibilität [feminine] (German), ευελιξία (evelixía) [feminine] (Greek), ευκαμψία (efkampsía) [feminine] (Greek), גְּמִישׁוּת (gmishút) [feminine] (Hebrew), flessibilità [feminine] (Italian), 柔軟性 (jūnansei) (Japanese), 可撓性 (katōsei) (Japanese), フレキシビリティ (furekishibiriti) (Japanese), flexibilitās [feminine] (Latin), so-lhoobaght [feminine] (Manx), so-vioraght [feminine] (Manx), ngohengohenga (Maori), çemînbarî (Northern Kurdish), fleksibilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bøyelighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), fleksibilitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), elastyczność [feminine] (Polish), flexibilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), flexibilitate [feminine] (Romanian), ги́бкость (gíbkostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), flexibilita [feminine] (Slovak), flexibilidad [feminine] (Spanish), flexibilitet [common-gender] (Swedish), pagkahutukin (Tagalog), ความยืดหยุ่น (kwaam-yʉ̂ʉt-yùn) (Thai), esneklik (Turkish), elastikiyet (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'quality of being flexible': 50 50

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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
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      "word": "epshmëri"
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "مُرُونة"
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      "roman": "čkunutʻyun",
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      "word": "ճկունություն"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "flexibilitat"
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
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      "word": "bøjelighed"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "fleksebleco"
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "joustavuus"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mokniloba",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "მოქნილობა"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "dreḳadoba",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "დრეკადობა"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Flexibilität"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "evelixía",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ευελιξία"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "efkampsía",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ευκαμψία"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "gmishút",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "גְּמִישׁוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flessibilità"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jūnansei",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "柔軟性"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "katōsei",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "可撓性"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "furekishibiriti",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "フレキシビリティ"
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    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "çemînbarî"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "so-lhoobaght"
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      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "ngohengohenga"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "fleksibilitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
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      "word": "bøyelighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "fleksibilitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "elastyczność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "flexibilidade"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "flexibilitate"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gíbkostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ги́бкость"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "flexibilita"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flexibilidad"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "flexibilitet"
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    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "pagkahutukin"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam-yʉ̂ʉt-yùn",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "ความยืดหยุ่น"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
      "word": "esneklik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality of being flexible",
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    "flexibility"
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