flexibility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FLEXIBIL'ITY, noun [See Flexible.] 1. The quality of admitting to be bent; pliancy; flexibleness; as the flexibility of rays of light. 2. Easiness to be persuaded; the quality of yielding to arguments, persuasion or circumstances; ductility of mind; readiness to comply; facility; as flexibility of temper.
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