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Plasticity

noun

The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking. Synonym: malleability.

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... bullocks, mostly with freckled faces and a certain general irresponsiveness of feature, soon to vanish as the mental and nervous motions became more frequent and rapid, working the stiff clay of their faces into a readier obedience to the indwelling plasticity. Some, on the other hand, showed themselves at once the aristocracy of the class, by their carriage and social qualifications or assumptions. These were not generally the best scholars; but they set the fashion in the cut of their coats, and especially ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

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... within certain undefined but somewhat narrow limits. They are plastic because they can to some extent change their habits, and changed habit, if persisted in, involves corresponding change, however slight, in the organs employed; but their plasticity depends in great measure upon their failure to perceive that they are moulding themselves. If a change is so great that they are seriously incommoded by its novelty, they are not likely to acquiesce ...

— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

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Words linked to "Plasticity" : physical property, flexibleness, unmalleability, plastic, flexibility, ductileness, ductility