plasticity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: plas=tic=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

plasticity, n. [Cf. F. plasticité.].

•  The quality or state of being plastic.  [1913 Webster]
•  Plastic force.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

plasticity

Softness

N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.