danciness

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noun

The quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.

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Meanings

noundanciness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentThe quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.

    The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time.

    2007 September 25, Alastair Macaulay, “An Idiomatic Balanchine, Walking the Walk in Seattle”, in New York Times
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    These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.

    1998, Robert G. O'Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, page 536

Origin

From dancy + -ness.

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APA

danciness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/danciness

MLA

“danciness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/danciness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “danciness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/danciness.

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