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Dérivé de supple, avec le suffixe -ness.

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suppleness
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  1. Souplesse.
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. — (William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations, 1699)

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