pliancy

1. 1.

   the property of being pliant and flexible

   Synonymspliantnesssuppleness

   Broaderbendability
2. 2.

   adaptability of mind or character

   “he was valued for his reliability and pliability”

   “he increased the leanness and suppleness of the organization”

   Synonymspliabilitypliantnesssuppleness

   Broaderadaptability

Other forms of pliancy

plural

pliancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pliancy

What does pliancy mean?

pliancy means "the property of being pliant and flexible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pliancy?

pliancy has 3 syllables: pli-an-cy. The stress falls on "pli".

What is another word for pliancy?

Close synonyms include pliantness, suppleness, pliability, pliantness, suppleness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pliancy a common word?

pliancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.