Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Flexibility

Flexibility , noun

[Latin flexibilitas: compare French flexibilite.]

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. — Sir I. Newton
All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. — Macaulay