flexibility

flexibility
    n 1: the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped [syn:
         {flexibility}, {flexibleness}] [ant: {inflexibility},
         {inflexibleness}]
    2: the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the
       flexibility of his working arrangement" [syn: {flexibility},
       {flexibleness}] [ant: {inflexibility}, {rigidity},
       {rigidness}]
    3: the trait of being easily persuaded [syn: {tractability},
       {tractableness}, {flexibility}] [ant: {intractability},
       {intractableness}]
    

Flexibility \Flex`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. flexibilitas: cf. F.
   flexibilite.]
   The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness;
   pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of
   hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
   --Sir I. Newton.
   [1913 Webster]

         All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. --Macaulay.
   [1913 Webster]
    

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexibility":
      Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, accommodation, accord,
      accordance, acquiescence, adaptability, adaptation, adaption,
      adjustability, adjustment, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement,
      all-roundedness, alterability, ambidexterity, amenability,
      bendability, biddability, bounce, bounciness, buoyance, buoyancy,
      changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compliableness,
      compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity,
      congruity, consistency, convenience, conventionality,
      correspondence, docility, ductibility, ductility, elasticity,
      extendibility, extensibility, facility, feasibility, fictility,
      flexility, flexuousness, fluidity, formativeness, give, handiness,
      harmony, impermanence, impressionability, keeping, limberness,
      line, litheness, liveliness, malleability, manageability,
      manageableness, maneuverability, many-sidedness, mobility,
      modifiability, moldability, movability, mutability, nonstrictness,
      nonuniformity, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, permutability,
      plasticity, pliability, pliancy, practicality, rebound,
      receptiveness, reconcilement, reconciliation, resilience,
      resiliency, responsiveness, rubberiness, sensibility,
      sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, snap, spring, springiness,
      stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strictness, submissiveness,
      subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, tensileness, tensility,
      tone, tonicity, tonus, tractability, tractility, traditionalism,
      transience, transitoriness, unaustereness, undemandingness,
      unharshness, uniformity, unsevereness, unsternness, unstrictness,
      untroublesomeness, versatility, wieldableness, wieldiness,
      willowiness, yieldingness