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danciness

danciness noun: the quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.

Noun

danciness (uncountable)

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

Origin of danciness

From dancy + -ness.

Questions about danciness

What does danciness mean?
Danciness means the quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.
What part of speech is danciness?
Danciness is a noun.

Words near danciness in the dictionary

  1. dancier
  2. danciest
  3. dancily
  4. dancin
  5. dancin'
  6. danciness
  7. dancing
  8. dancing around
  9. dancing attendance
  10. dancing bologna
  11. dancing girl

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