Plasticity Synonyms and Antonyms

plăs-tĭs ′ ĭ-tē
The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mobility
  2. pliancy
  3. malleability
  4. resilience
Antonyms:
  1. unmalleability

Words Related to Plasticity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. flexible
  2. patterning
  3. viscoelasticity
  4. experience-dependent
  5. morphology
  6. neuronal
  7. cortical
  8. excitability
  9. synaptic

Plasticity Sentence Examples

  • Nothing better shows the plasticity of her character than the ease with which she adapted herself to this sudden change.

  • This plasticity is, however, itself hereditary.

  • Tresca show that the plasticity of certain metals at least goes considerably farther than had before been supposed.

  • Pure lead isa feebly lustrous bluishwhite metal, endowed with a characteristically high degree of softness and plasticity, and almost entirely devoid of elasticity.

  • Closely related to the structure of metals is their degree of "plasticity" (susceptibility of being constrained into new forms without breach of continuity).

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