Synonyms for flexibility
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Pliability — the quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically
pliability, versatility, suppleness, ductility, facility, pliancy, limberness, litheness
2. Tractability
Other
leeway, give-and-take, compliance, wiggle room informal, flexibleness
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
- n. 2
The quality of having options.
I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.
Related words
- Word family
- flex
- Phrases
- waxy flexibility
Forms
- Plural
- flexibilities → pliabilities, versatilities, supplenesses, ductilities…
Example sentences
- leeway The ship had too much leeway and drifted off course.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| flexibility | steady | |
| versatility | falling | |
| ductility | falling | |
| suppleness | steady | |
| pliability | steady | |
| leeway | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- leeway2
- 7 letters
- pliancy
- 8 letters
- facility4
- 9 letters
- ductility4, litheness
- 10 letters
- compliance3, suppleness, pliability, limberness
- 11 letters
- versatility5
- 12 letters
- tractability, flexibleness
- 13 letters
- tractableness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (leeway2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- flexibilité
- Deutsch
- Flexibilität