dynamism

What it means

1. countableuncountableGreat energy, drive, force, or power; vigour of body, mind, or personality; oomph or pizzazz.
2. countableuncountableDynamic reality; active energy; continuous change, progress, or activity.

   Kanye West is noted for the creative dynamism displayed across his discography.

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   The fact that the war is no longer the main issue in the election points to the dynamism of foreign affairs.

   But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?

   2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159

3. countableuncountablemetaphysicshuman sciencesAny of several philosophical theories that attempt to explain the universe by an immanent force.

In a sentence

The fact that the war is no longer the main issue in the election points to the dynamism of foreign affairs.

Where it comes from

1. Ancient Greekδύναμις“power”
2. Englishdynamism

From English dynam(ic) (or directly from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)) + ism.