pliability
Ease of bending
Pliability is the quality of bending easily without breaking.
Materials with pliability—leather, young branches, soft metals—can be shaped or flexed.
The word extends to people and ideas: someone with pliability adapts readily to new circumstances or yields to persuasion.
The pliability of her schedule allowed last-minute changes.
Unlike flexibility, pliability sometimes suggests excessive yielding or lack of firm principle.
Able to curve
- suppleFlexing without damage
- limberBending without resistance
- pliantEasily bent or influenced
- elasticAble to stretch, rebounds
ductile · flexuous · yielding · soft · flexile · bendy · springy · whippy
Bending under pressure
- accommodatingWilling to help others
- adaptableAble to adjust readily
- receptiveOpen to input
- amenableWilling to comply
acquiescent · tractable · docile · biddable · submissive · obedient · deferential · agreeable
Tendency to resume original form
- springinessCapacity for elastic recovery
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- bouncebackRecovery from adversity
- reboundReturn after deflection
stretchiness · flexibility · tensile · suppleness · give · durability · memory · rebounding
Capable of being shaped
- shapableAble to be molded
- formableAble to be molded
- workableAble to be implemented
- plasticCapable of being molded
ductile · softness · impressionable · reshapable · kneadable · sculptable · pressable · deformable
bendable
Able to curve
elastic · ductile · flexuous · yielding · soft · flexile · bendy · springy · whippy · lissome
yielding
Bending under pressure
- accommodatingWilling to help others
- adaptableAble to adjust readily
- receptiveOpen to input
amenable · acquiescent · tractable · docile · biddable · submissive · obedient · deferential · agreeable · cooperative
elasticity
Tendency to resume original form
- springinessCapacity for elastic recovery
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- bouncebackRecovery from adversity
rebound · stretchiness · flexibility · tensile · suppleness · give · durability · memory · rebounding · restoration
moldable
Capable of being shaped
plastic · ductile · softness · impressionable · reshapable · kneadable · sculptable · pressable · deformable · squishable
- touchtouch, feel, touching, caress, feeling
- adaptabilityadapt, flexibility, resilience, adaptability, malleable
- obedienceobedience, subordination, deference, docility, subservience
- physical propertiessolid, texture, weight, mass, surface
- propertiessize, shape, color, height, width
- resilienceresilience, grit, bounce back, bouncing back, robustness
pliabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
stiffness · inflexibility · hardness · brittleness · firmness
pliabilityobstinacy
Unyielding adherence to position
stubbornness · inflexibility · rigidity · intransigence · obduracy
pliabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
inflexibility · rigor · strictness · immutability · fixedness
apply, display, reply, imply, multiply, ply, comply, pliable, compliance