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plasticity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun plasticity has 1 sense
- plasticity(n = noun.attribute) malleability - 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 plastic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
plasticity, n. [Cf. F. plasticité.].
- The quality or state of being plastic. [1913 Webster]
- Plastic force. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
plasticity
adaptability, adjustability, agreeability, agreeableness, alterability, amenability, aptitude, aptness, bendability, biddability, brightness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, cleverness, compliableness, docility, ductibility, ductility, educability, elasticity, extendibility, extensibility, facility, fictility, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, fluidity, formativeness, give, impermanence, impressionability, intelligence, limberness, litheness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, moldability, motivation, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, pliability, pliancy, quickness, readiness, receptiveness, receptivity, resilience, responsiveness, rubberiness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, springiness, submissiveness, subservience, suppleness, susceptibility, teachability, teachableness, tensileness, tensility, tractability, tractility, trainableness, transience, transitoriness, willingness, willowiness, yieldingnessROGET THESAURUS
plasticity
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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