FLEXIBLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flexibleness mean? 

• FLEXIBLENESS (noun)
  The noun FLEXIBLENESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped

2. the quality of being adaptable or variable

  Familiarity information: FLEXIBLENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLEXIBLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flexibility; flexibleness

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

malleability; plasticity (the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking)

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

bendability; pliability (the property of being easily bent without breaking)

whip ((golf) the flexibility of the shaft of a golf club)

Derivation:

flexible (bending and snapping back readily without breaking)

flexible (able to flex; able to bend easily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being adaptable or variable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

flexibility; flexibleness

Context example:

he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement

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

adaptability (the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances)

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

wiggle room (flexibility of interpretation or of options)

Derivation:

flexible (capable of being changed)

flexible (making or willing to make concessions)

flexible (able to adjust readily to different conditions)