elasticity

elasticity
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Great flexibility
Nouns
1. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, buoyancy, extensibility, ductility, stretch, rebound, adaptability. See vigor, expansion.
2. (elastic material) rubber, India rubber, caoutchouc, whalebone, elastomer, baleen, gum elastic; rubber ball, rubber or elastic band; trampoline, springboard.
3. (flexible person) gymnast, contortionist.
Verbs — be elastic, spring back, rebound, stretch, expand; elasticize, vulcanize.
Adjectives — elastic, tensile, springy, resilient, buoyant, extensible, ductile, stretchable, adaptable; rubbery, rubberized.
Antonyms, see inelasticity.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. resiliency, buoyancy, pliability; see flexibility 1 .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or state of being flexible: bounce, ductility, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness. Obsolete: flexure. See FLEXIBLE. 2. The ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement: bounce, buoyancy, resilience, resiliency. See ABILITY.

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