suppleness

From supple + -ness.

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suppleness (usually uncountable, plural supplenesses)

1. The quality of being supple; litheness, flexibility, pliability, manageability.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations‎^[1]:

     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.