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| Main Entry: |
plasticity
 [pla-stis-i-tee] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pliancy |
| Synonyms: | elasticity, flexibility, malleability, mobility, resilience |
| Main Entry: | elasticity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stretchiness |
| Synonyms: | adaptability, adjustability, flexibility, fluidity, give*, malleability, plasticity, pliancy, resilience, rubberiness, springiness, suppleness |
| Antonyms: | rigidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flexibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | elasticity, adaptability |
| Synonyms: | adjustability, affability, complaisance, compliance, docility, extensibility, flaccidity, flexibleness, give, limberness, litheness, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, resilience, springiness, suppleness, tensility, tractability |
| Antonyms: | constraint, inelasticity, inflexibility, resistance |
Example Sentences
- The rigidity of human reason was no match for the plasticity of microbes.
- These qualities give it a remarkable plasticity but prevent it from being thrown on a pottery wheel.
- And this he does with a fine achievement of pictorial plasticity and power.
| Main Entry: | adaptability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | changeability |
| Synonyms: | adjustability, ambidexterity, compliancy, conformability, flexibility, malleability, plasticity, pliancy, versatility |
| Main Entry: | impressibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | susceptibility |
| Synonyms: | affectability, emotionality, flexibility, impressionability, perceptivity, plasticity, pliancy, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentimentality, susceptibleness, tenderness |
| Main Entry: | softness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impressibility |
| Synonyms: | flexibility, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability |
| Main Entry: | ductility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flexibility |
| Synonyms: | compliance, ductileness, elasticity, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, tractability, tractableness |
| Main Entry: | flexibleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flexibility |
| Synonyms: | ductileness, ductility, elasticity, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, tractability, tractableness |
| Main Entry: | malleability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flexibility |
| Synonyms: | adjustability, affability, complaisance, compliance, docility, ductility, elasticity, extensibility, extensibleness, flaccidity, flexibleness, give, limberness, litheness, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness, tensility, tractability |
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