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plasticity

[pla-stis-i-tee]
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noun

the quality or state of being plastic.
the capability of being molded, receiving shape, or being made to assume a desired form: the plasticity of social institutions; the great plasticity of clay.

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flexibility, mobility, resilience, elasticity, malleability

Origin of plasticity

First recorded in 1775–85; plastic + -ity
Related formsnon·plas·tic·i·ty, noun
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plasticity

noun

the quality of being plastic or able to be moulded
(in pictorial art) the quality of depicting space and form so that they appear three-dimensional
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for plasticity

1782, from plastic + -ity.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper