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pliancy

/ˈplaɪənsi/

pliancy noun: the quality of being pliant.

Noun

pliancy (countable and uncountable, plural pliancies)

  1. The quality of being pliant.
    • [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry
    Synonyms:
    pliantness

pliancy meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

pliancy in Tamil

மெத்தெனவு

pliancy in Malayalam

pliancy
പതുമ patuma

pliancy in Kannada

ಬಗ್ಗುವಿಕೆ, ಮಣಿಯುವಿಕೆ

Synonyms of pliancy

Forms of pliancy

pluralpliancies

Questions about pliancy

What does pliancy mean?
Pliancy means the quality of being pliant.
What is pliancy in Tamil?
Pliancy in Tamil is மெத்தெனவு. See Pliancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pliancy?
Pliancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce pliancy?
Pliancy is pronounced /ˈplaɪənsi/ (US).
What is the plural of pliancy?
The plural of pliancy is pliancies.

Words near pliancy in the dictionary

  1. pliability
  2. pliable
  3. pliableness
  4. pliably
  5. pliancies
  6. pliancy
  7. pliant
  8. pliantly
  9. pliantness
  10. pliars
  11. PLIC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pliancy (page history and authors); pliancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പതുമ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); pliancy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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