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Webster 1913 Edition

Suppleness

Sup′ple-ness

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Noun.

The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.

Webster 1828 Edition

Suppleness

SUP'PLENESS

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Noun.

[from supple.] Pliancy; pliableness; flexibility; the quality of being easily bent; as the suppleness of the joints.

1.

Readiness of compliance; the quality of easily yielding; facility; as the suppleness of the will.

Definition 2024

suppleness

suppleness

English

Noun

suppleness ‎(usually uncountable, plural supplenesses)

The quality of being supple; litheness.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

Translations

the quality of being supple

Dutch: soepelheid f, lenigheid f
Finnish: notkeus (fi)
French: souplesse (fr) f
Middle French: soupplesse f
Georgian: მოქნილობა ‎(mokniloba)
Irish: aclaíocht f, leabhaireacht f, lúfaireacht f, solúbthacht f, umhlóid f
Italian: flessuosità f

Latin: mollitia f, mollitūdō f, mollitiēs f
Manx: lhoobid m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: smidighet (no) m, f
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: савѝтљиво̄ст f

Roman: savìtljivōst (sh) f