Synonyms of pliancy

pliancy

noun

as in pliability

Related Words

• pliability
• suppleness
• ductility
• adaptability
• elasticity
• pliableness
• workability
• pliantness
• flexibility
• limberness
• plasticity
• malleability
• resilience
• workableness

Dissimilar Words

• stiffness
• rigidity
• inflexibility

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pliancy

In surrendering to remoteness and distance—what can’t be seen or decided, whether because of memory’s pliancy or people’s opacity—the show birthed something new, or seemed to. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023

The leave-in Hair Dew brings pliancy to hair, and a good pick for thirsty strands is the What the Hemp deep moisture mask, which deeply moisturizes but feels light as air. — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023

Yet throughout there is a constant, distinctive search for a simple, singing sense of expression, for a pliancy of line, for a sophistication and sensitivity that lay in more than technical precision. — David Allen, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022

But on Wednesday night, those Mach-one speeds tended to shear off the symphony’s character — especially in the Andante, which had little of the movement’s familiar pliancy and lackadaisical levity. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2022

But theater artists, filmmakers and novelists, drawn to the interior richness of Chekhov’s dramas, have discovered not only the timeliness of his untimely work but also its aesthetic pliancy and openness. — Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022