plasticism

Noun

plasticism (usually uncountable, plural plasticisms)

1. (usually) The state or condition of being plastic.
   • The life of ants is crowded with such socialphychological corrections which regulate the mechanism of instinct by individual “plasticisms,” conduct it into useful paths, and thus bring about an adaptation to external advantages and disadvantages.1919, Scientific American: Supplement - Volume 88, page 167
   • The new man will be plastic and his essence will be plasticism (rather than humanism) .1970, Cornell Engineer - Volumes 36-37, page 6
2. (usually) The plastic quality of certain artworks, and the theory or movement of art that embodies this quality.
   • The New York plasticism will be also the plasticism of Paris and Petrograd.1916, Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The dance, page 267
   • But it also developed wonderfully in linear delineation, as seen in Seison's “Water-Drawing Ceremony”; in serene spatial constructivism, as seen in Gyoshu's “Tea Ceremony Room”; and in sharp and sensual plasticism as in Yuki's “Moonlit Night."1969, A Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Oriental Arts
3. (usually) The ubiquitous use of plastic.
   • Such an individual will almost certainly have noticed by this time a kind of creeping plasticism in the clothes he wears, the appliances he uses, the furniture he sits on, the car he drives and possibly even the house he lives in.1967, Industrial Design - Volume 14, page 161
   • McDonald's, Arby's, Burger King, Pizza Hut blurred by, molded tributes to plasticism and bad food.1985, Carl Ramm, Detroit Combat, →ISBN, page 130