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malleability
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun malleability has 1 sense
- malleability(n = noun.attribute) plasticity - the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking; Array is a kind of physical property
has particulars: ductileness, ductility, flexibility, flexibleness
Derived form adjective malleable2
Antonym: unmalleability
CIDE DICTIONARY
malleability, n. [CF. F. malléabilité.].
The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness . Locke. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
malleability
Softness
N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.
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