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PLASTICITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking

Synonyms:

malleability; plasticity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("plasticity" is a kind of...):

physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plasticity"):

ductileness; ductility (the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets)

flexibility; flexibleness (the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped)

Derivation:

plastic (capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Nevertheless, Nature had given him plasticity.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.

(White Fang, by Jack London)