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.

All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

 

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