plasticity

Noun

Meaning

Plastic force.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

malleability give spring density facility flexibility mobility compliance bounce elasticity resilience compactness softness adaptability ductility
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Antonyms

badness hardness hardship harshness firmness clumsiness
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Hypernyms

physical property

Hyponyms

flexibility ductility flexibleness ductileness

Phrases with the word

visco-elasto-plasticity synaptic plasticity neural plasticity

Examples

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. Jacob Bronowski

Its decadence, satiety, and languor [of Roman civilization] interested me. And I kept looking and returning to their wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and their elegant plasticity. I admired the way they used their geology in their art - the sense of mineral, clay. rock, marble, and stone. William Baziotes

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity. Frank Zappa

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility. Paul Bloom

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it. Roz Chast

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity. Norman Doidge

Close letter words and terms

plasticise plasticiser plasticism plasticization plasticize plasticizer