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[syn: malleability, plasticity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Plasticity \Plas*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plasticit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being plastic.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Physiol.) Plastic force. --Dunglison.
[1913 Webster] Plastid
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
plasticity
n 1: the property of being physically malleable; the property of
something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without
breaking [syn: malleability, plasticity] [ant:
unmalleability]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, yieldingness