- Softness (Substantives), tenderness, flexibility, pliancy, pliableness, pliantness, litheness, pliability, suppleness, sequacity, ductility, malleability, tractility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, laxity, limpness.
- Elasticity (Substantives), springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, contractility 195, compressibility.
- Inelasticity (Substantives), want or absence of elasticity, see 324.
- Tenacity (Substantives), toughness, strength, cohesion 46, stubbornness.
- Brittleness (Substantives), fragility, crispness, friability, frangibility, fissility.
- Texture (Substantives), structure, organisation, organism, anatomy, frame, mould, fabric, framework, carcass, architecture, compages, substance, parenchyma, constitution, intertexture, contexture, tissue, grain, web, warp, woof, nap 256.
(Phrases). Hard as iron, etc.; hard as a brick; hard as a nail; hard as a deal board; stiff as buckram; stiff as a poker.
Clay, wax, butter, dough; a cushion, pillow, featherbed, down.
Mollification, softening, etc.
(Verbs). To render soft, soften, mollify, relax, temper, mash, knead, squash.
To bend, yield, relent, relax.
(Adjectives). Soft, tender, supple, pliable, limp, limber, flexible, flexile, lithe, lissom, svelte, willowy, pliant, plastic, waxen, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious.
Yielding, bending, flabby, lymphatic, flocculent, downy, flimsy, spongy, œdematous, doughy, argillaceous, mellow; emollient, softening, etc.
(Phrases). Soft as butter; soft as down; soft as silk; yielding as wax; tender as a chicken.
India-rubber, caoutchouc, whalebone, elastic.
(Verbs). To be elastic, etc., to spring back, fly back, rebound, recoil 277.
(Adjectives). Elastic, tensile, springy, resilient, buoyant.
(Adjectives). Inelastic, ductile, limber, etc.
(Verbs). To be tenacious, etc., to resist fracture.
(Adjectives). Tenacious, tough, stubborn, cohesive, strong, resisting, coriaceous.
(Phrase). Tough as leather.
(Verbs). To be brittle, break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, fracture, crumble, break short, burst, fly.
(Adjectives). Brittle, frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack, shivery, fissile, splitting, splintery, crisp, short, crumbling.
(Phrase). Brittle as glass.
Fineness or coarseness of grain.
Science of textures: Histology.
(Adjectives). Textural, structural, organic, anatomic, anatomical.
Fine, delicate, subtle, fine-grained.
Coarse, rough-grained, coarse-grained.