Other forms: elasticities
Elasticity is how well skin springs back into shape. Lose elasticity, skin elasticity, restore elasticity.
It depends on elastin and collagen, and it falls with age and with sun damage, which does far more of the harm than years alone. In physics elasticity is a material's ability to return to shape after a force is removed. Note elastic beneath it.
1nounelasticityHow well something springs back into shape.
“As we get older, our skin loses its elasticity.”
elasticity is a property.
French
élastique
English
elastic
English, today
elasticity
Built from
From elastic + -ity. elastic Borrowed from French élastique. From French élastique, from New Latin elasticus (“elastic”), from Ancient Greek ἐλαστός, alternative form of ἐλατός (“ductile”) (cf. ἐλατήρ (“a driver, hurler”)), from ἐλαύνω (“to drive, set in motion, push, strike, beat out”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA