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flexion
 
Noun flexion has 3 senses
  1. flexure, flection, flexion - the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
    --1 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
  2. inflection, flection, flexion - deviation from a straight or normal course
    --2 is a kind of deviation, divergence, departure, difference
  3. flexion, flexure - act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
    --3 is a kind of bending
    Antonyms: extension
    --3 has particulars: flex; dorsiflexion
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