[ noun ] the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking <noun.attribute>
Plasticity \Plas*tic"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. plasticit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being plastic.
2. (Physiol.) Plastic force. --Dunglison.
If A Midsummer Night's Dream takes so low a view of human beings, it is a remarkably un-Shakespearian play. But Shakespeare's plasticity of characterisation is never apparent in this staging.