stretchinessn.
The quality of being stretchy; elasticity.
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extendibility1477
extension1594
extensibilitya1640
tensibility1676
extensiveness1701
extensibleness1727
distensibility1758
stretch1875
stretchability1940
stretchiness1963
1963 Economist 7 Sept. 840/2 A slight stretchiness can be woven into two directions.
1976 A. M. Farrer Interpr. & Belief 208 In this way I stretch my terms and I do not know how much they ought to be stretched. At this point the stretchiness of terms in my descriptions to myself of my own experience comes into play.
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