malleability

Meanings

Plural: malleabilities

Noun

• the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking
• The quality or state of being malleable.
• The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
• a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext

Synonyms

plasticity

Antonyms

brittleness, friability, unmalleability