tensility

English

Etymology

From tensile +‎ -ity.

Noun

tensility (countable and uncountable, plural tensilities)

1. The quality or state of being tensile (capable of being extended).
   • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:

     the tensility of the muscles

   • 2005, Valeria Matranga, Echinodermata:

     It is therefore almost certain that mutability depends on changes not in the tensility of the collagen fibrils, but in the cohesive forces holding the fibrils together.

References

• “tensility”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.