Flexibility is how far a body can bend without hurting. Improve your flexibility, lose flexibility, a test of flexibility.
Stretching cold does little and may do harm, and the evidence favours moving through a range rather than holding a position — the old advice was mostly wrong. In work, flexibility means changeable hours, and whose convenience it serves is the whole argument.
1nounflexibilityHow far a body can bend without hurting.
“Regular yoga has improved my flexibility, and now I can touch my toes.”
flexibility is a physical quality.
Latin flexibilitas comes from flectere, to bend. Reflect and inflection are relatives.
Latin
flexibilitās
French
flexibilité
English, today
flexibility
From French flexibilité, from Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“to bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA