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BENDABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bendability mean?
• BENDABILITY (noun)
The noun BENDABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the property of being easily bent without breaking
Familiarity information: BENDABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being easily bent without breaking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bendability; pliability
Hypernyms ("bendability" is a kind of...):
flexibility; flexibleness (the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bendability"):
pliancy; pliantness; suppleness (the property of being pliant and flexible)
Derivation:
bendable (capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking)
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