What is "flexibleness"

Flexible \Flex"i*ble\, a. [L. flexibilis: cf. F. flexible.]

1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.

   When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
   --Shak.

2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering.

   Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people.
   --Bacon.

   Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
   --Shak.

3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.

   This was a principle more flexible to their purpose.
   --Rogers.

   Syn: Pliant; pliable; supple; tractable; manageable; ductile; obsequious; inconstant; wavering. -- Flex"i*ble*ness, n. -- Flex"i*bly, adv.

n. The state or quality of being flexible.

n. the property of being flexible [syn: flexibility] [ant: inflexibility]