plasticity
pronunciation
How to pronounce plasticity in British English:
UK [plæˈstɪsəti]
How to pronounce plasticity in American English:
US [plæˈstɪsətɪ]
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- Noun:
- the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking
Word Origin
- plasticity
- 1782, from plastic + -ity.
Example
- 1. The term used to describe this new understanding is brain plasticity .
- 2. Plasticity does have limits , however .
- 3. More simply put , enlightenment authors overestimated the plasticity of human nature .
- 4. This is the prolonged plasticity of those late-developing frontal areas as they slowly mature .
- 5. Neuroscientists have shown that environmental experiences significantly shape the developing brain because of the plasticity of its neuronal connectivity .