flexibility
The quality of being flexible, whether physically or metaphorically.
Other meanings
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
- flexicurity
- heteroflexibility
- homoflexibility
- hyperflexibility
- labour market flexibility
- low temperature flexibility
- neuroflexibility
- semiflexibility
- ultraflexibility
- waxy flexibility
Word history
From Latin "flectō" (to bend, curve).
Where this comes from
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