flexibility Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. lentĭtia2. lentorII. Fig.2. făcĭlĭtas (easiness of being wrought upon) • flexibility: I. Lit.: 1. lentĭtia: twigs of pliant f. for bands (withes), virgae sequacis ad vincturas l., Plin. 16, 37, 68. 2. lentor: the ash is chosen on account of its f, the oak for its hardness, lentore fraxinus, duritia ilex legitur, Plin. 16, 43, 84. (May usu. be expr. by adj.: no tree exceeds the willow in f., nulla arbor salice flexibilior: v. flexible.) II. Fig.: of character: mollĭtia, mollĭties: a kind of tenderness and f., teneritas quaedam et mollities, Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58: agility and, so to speak, f. of nature, agilitas, ut ita dicam, mollitiesque, Cic. Att. 1. 17, 1. (Oftener used in bad sense: v. softness, effeminacy.) 2. făcĭlĭtas (easiness of being wrought upon): the f. of childhood, f. (puerilis) aetatis, Quint. 1, 12, 11. (Or expr. by adj.: diction of such f. as to follow wherever you turn it, oratio ita flexibilis, ut sequatur quocunque torqueas, Quint.: v. flexible.) N.B.--Flexibilitas is without good authority.