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BENDABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bendability mean? 

BENDABILITY (noun)
  The noun BENDABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being easily bent without breakingplay

  Familiarity information: BENDABILITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BENDABILITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being easily bent without breaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bendability; pliability

Hypernyms ("bendability" is a kind of...):

flexibility; flexibleness (the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bendability"):

pliancy; pliantness; suppleness (the property of being pliant and flexible)

Derivation:

bendable (capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking)


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