malleability
Capacity for reshaping
Malleability is the quality of being easily shaped, pressed, or hammered without breaking.
Gold's malleability makes it ideal for jewelry and gold leaf.
The word extends to anything adaptable or impressionable: the malleability of young minds, the malleability of public opinion.
What's malleable yields to outside force without cracking.
Ability to adapt easily
- pliabilityAbility to bend easily
- adjustabilityCapacity for alteration
- moldabilityCapacity to be shaped
- receptivenessWillingness to accept ideas
openness · compliance · yielding · conformability · accommodation · resilience · elasticity · tolerance
Yielding to gentle pressure
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- plasticityAbility to change shape
- viscosityFluid's flow resistance
density · deformability · compressibility · flexibility · rigidity · brittleness · toughness · workability
Easily influenced or affected
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- persuadableAble to be convinced
- pliableCapable of bending easily
- tractableEasily managed or controlled
amenable · compliant · docile · yielding · moldable · shapeable · influenceable · receptive
flexibility
Ability to adapt easily
- pliabilityAbility to bend easily
- adjustabilityCapacity for alteration
- moldabilityCapacity to be shaped
receptiveness · openness · compliance · yielding · conformability · accommodation · resilience · elasticity · tolerance · modifiability
softness
Yielding to gentle pressure
- hardnessResistance to penetration
- elasticityTendency to resume original form
- plasticityAbility to change shape
viscosity · density · deformability · compressibility · flexibility · rigidity · brittleness · toughness · workability · formability
impressionable
Easily influenced or affected
- suggestibleEasily influenced by others
- persuadableAble to be convinced
- pliableCapable of bending easily
tractable · amenable · compliant · docile · yielding · moldable · shapeable · influenceable · receptive · open-minded
gold
Element seventy-nine
aluminum · platinum · tin · zinc · iron · brass · bronze · nickel · palladium · tensile
hammering
Striking repeatedly with force
- forgingShaping heated metal; faking documents
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- rollingTurning over repeatedly
extrusion · bending · annealing · tempering · swaging · embossing · chasing · coining · stamping · spinning
- developmentgrowth, progress, advancement, expansion, improvement
- propertiessize, shape, color, height, width
- propiedadesmasa, peso, color, brillo, hardness
- Bronze Agebronze swords, bronze, bronze tools, bronze jewelry, bronze dagger
- material propertieshardness, elasticity, ductility, strength, durability
- metalsmithingmetalsmithing, solder, soldering, metalworking, smithing
malleabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
brittleness · stiffness · hardness · inflexibility · friability
malleabilityinflexibility
Quality of being unbending
rigidity · stubbornness · obstinacy · intransigence · intractability
malleabilityrigidity
State of being unbending
inflexibility · immutability · fixity · permanence · unchangeability