An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
FLEXIBILITY
flexibility, flexibleness
(noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable; “he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement”
tractability, tractableness, flexibility
(noun) the trait of being easily persuaded
flexibility, flexibleness
(noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flexibility (countable and uncountable, plural flexibilities)
The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
The quality of having options.
Source: Wiktionary
Flex`i*bil"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. flexibilitas: cf. F. flexibilite.]
Definition: The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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