movingness

M3O1V4I1N1G2N1E1S1S1

noun

The power or property of moving; momentum.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounmovingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe power or property of moving; momentum.

    A light object has less movingness than a heavy object travelling at the same speed.

    2022, Simon Clark, Firmament
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    Furthermore, although Confucianism admits that Being is also an ontological movement, it can at best explicate the "movingness" (Bewegtheit) of this ontological movement in terms of the alternation between yin and yang.

    1984, Chan Wing-Cheuk, “Confucian Moral Metaphysics and Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, editor, Phenomenology of Life in a Dialogue Between Chinese and Occidental Philosophy, page 190

    The movingness of cars or planes was represented, as was the movingness of writing as a continuous movement of the pencil across paper.

    1991, Chris Athey, Extending Thought in Young Children, page 181
  2. uncountableA quality that suggests movement.

    Slowed down to simulate the successive phase, the really-moving light loses its blur of movingness.

    1942, Gordon Lynn Walls, The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation, page 360
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    The movingness is a flashing sensation interpreted as motion by virtue of the circumstances connected with it.

    2001, Steven Yantis, Visual Perception, page 163

    Under conditions favourable for confusion, it was difficult for the observer to perceive with any clearness the 'vehicle of movement'; all he could see was 'movingness' without any object moving.

    2013, M. D. Vernon, Visual Perception, page 162
  3. uncountableThe quality of being emotionally moving.

    The scene, although rural enough, was yet one of sparkle, movingness, and beauty.

    1893, Matilda Betham-Edwards, The Curb of Honour, page 178
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    Finally, we investigated whether perceived movingness would also mediate the effect of perceived sadness on perceived beauty.

    2018, Mark Reybrouck, Tuomas Eerola, Piotr Podlipniak, Music and the Functions of the Brain

    Ever reigns that dance so frequently called to mind by Andre/ Velter and which, if it may be the sign and the act of some near-ecstacy—a felicity, a rapture, a beatitude—remains equally the 'act and place,' as we have seen Bonnefoy call the poetical gesture, of doing made of change and annulation, of reversibility and repeal—in short, the act and place of a profound ontological movingness.

    2019, Michael Bishop, Earth and Mind, page 102

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  3. Proto-Italic*moweō
  4. Latinmovēre
  5. Old Northern Frenchmover
  6. Middle Englishmoven
  7. Englishmoving
  8. Englishmovingness

From moving + -ness.

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