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malleability

[ mal-ee-uh-bil-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the state of being malleable, or capable of being shaped, as by hammering or pressing:

    the extreme malleability of gold.

  2. adaptability:

    the malleability of an infant's brain.



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Other Word Forms

  • ԴDzm···i·ٲ noun
  • ԴDz·l···Ա noun
  • ܲm···i·ٲ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of malleability1

First recorded in 1640–50; malle(able) ( def ) + -ability ( def )
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However, the fact that his private investigator has been portrayed more than 254 times in movies and TV speaks to the endless malleability of a literary character that’s more than a century old.

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His work has continuing implications for the study of “extreme forms of influence,” such as terrorist recruiting, cults and “human malleability or resiliency when confronted by authority power.”

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Lee says collapses happen often during the printing phase because of the moisture and malleability of the clay.

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It’s been astonishing to read some of the recent studies about psychedelics enabling access to peak consciousness, and how those states seem to offer a sort of healing malleability in a brain affected by trauma.

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Her great subject turns out to be the malleability of identity itself, which may help explain why Horn describes an exhibition as a “group show of myself.”

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