unpliableness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of being physically rigid or difficult to bend

   Age had increased the leather's unpliableness.

2. 2
   noun

   figurative inflexibility or resistance to change

   The unpliableness of habit made the new method feel unnatural.

Formed from unpliable + -ness. Pliable comes through French from Latin plicare, 'to fold'; the noun extends physical resistance to bending into mental or behavioral inflexibility.

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