crushability

Ease of flattening

Crushability is the quality of being crushable—how easily something can be crushed or compressed.

The term appears in materials science and engineering to describe how substances respond to pressure: The crushability of the aggregate affects road durability.

In casual use, it can describe how appealing someone is as a romantic crush: Her crushability factor is off the charts.

fragility

brittle

Liable to shatter

crumbly · friable · splintery · flimsy · tender · breakable · frail · fragile · weak · insubstantial

compressibility

squashability

Ease of being flattened

softness · pliability · give · sponginess · cushioning · denting · collapsibility

vulnerability

susceptibility

Liability to influence

exposure · penetrability · exploitability · sensitivity · precariousness · delicateness · tenderness · breakability · destructibility

pulverizability

granulation

Making into small grains

Opposites
structural resistance

crushabilityrigidity

State of being unbending

incompressibility · hardness · structural integrity · indestructibility · solidity

permanence of form

crushabilitystructural stability

Ability to bear loads

inflexibility · immutability

Family

crush, crushed, crushing, crusher, crushingly, crushers, crushable, uncrushed, uncrushable

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G