plasticity

1. 1.

   the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking

   Synonymsmalleability

   Broaderphysical property

   Narrowerductilityflexibility

Other forms of plasticity

plural

plasticities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plasticity

What does plasticity mean?

plasticity means "the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking".

How many syllables are in plasticity?

plasticity has 4 syllables: pla-sti-ci-ty. The stress falls on "sti".

What is another word for plasticity?

Close synonyms include malleability. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plasticity a common word?

plasticity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.