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PLASTICITY
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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))
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)
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