flexibility

Etymology

From French flexibilité, from Late Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flectō (“I bend, curve”). Equivalent to flexible + -ity = flex + -ibility.

noun

1. The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
   Whether redundancies come and whether they result in industrial action remains to be seen, but it's clear that the RMT is not prepared to show any flexibility towards rail companies. December 2 2020, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63
2. The quality of having options.
   I had some flexibility in terms of whether to stay in a hotel or in a bed-and-breakfast.