SPASTICITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of moving or acting in spasms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("spasticity" is a kind of...):

fitfulness; jerkiness (the quality of being spasmodic and irregular)

Derivation:

spastic (affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm)

spastic (suffering from spastic paralysis)

spastic (relating to or characterized by spasm)