🧘 Ability to bend 🔄 Adaptability

flexibleness

4.1

The ability to bend or change shape without breaking

noun
/ˈflɛksəblnəs/

: flexibilidad

Yoga improves the flexibleness of your joints and muscles.

Examples

The flexibleness of the material allows it to be shaped into various forms.
The dancer's flexibleness was impressive during the performance.
Her flexibleness in adapting to new situations was appreciated by her colleagues.
The flexibleness of the material makes it ideal for crafting sculptures.
The flexibleness of the material makes it ideal for crafting sculptures.
Her flexibleness in adapting to new situations was appreciated by her colleagues.
Yoga improves the flexibleness of your joints and muscles.

Synonyms

give

vsflexibleness

Informal

56 7.4

The ability of a material to bend or stretch and return

covers ease of bending without implying a return to original form

flexibility

vsflexibleness

37 3.0

Ability to bend or change shape without breaking

focuses on physical bending ability without the adapting aspect

suppleness

vsflexibleness

1 4.5

Being able to bend and move the body easily

is the plain physical bending quality without the graceful tone

plasticity

vsflexibleness

Specialized

1 6.1

Easy to shape or bend without breaking

means easy bending but not necessarily permanent reshaping

limberness

vsflexibleness

1 4.6

Ability to bend and move the body easily

is about bendability in general objects, not focused on movement

pliability

vsflexibleness

6.0

Easy to bend or shape without breaking

emphasizes the same physical bendability as the key concept

bendability

vsflexibleness

5.8

Ability of a material to be shaped into a curve without breaking

is the more general wording for that same simple quality

deformability

vsflexibleness

Specialized

7.3

How easily a material like rubber changes shape without breaking

focuses on general ease of bending rather than forced shape change

Antonyms

rigidity

Specialized

3 6.0

Not able to bend or change shape easily

How Flexible

pliability

6.0

flexibleness

4.1

stiffness

13 3.9

Surface Forms

flexibleness singular

flexiblenesses plural

Morphology

flexibleness = flexible (transparent) = flex + ible + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'flexible', yielding the quality of being flexible.

Etymology

Flexibleness comes from the Latin root flectere, which means 'to bend', and you can see the same idea in the English verb flex. So flexibleness is the quality of being able to bend or be shaped without breaking.