dynamicisms

Noun

dynamicism (countable and uncountable, plural dynamicisms)

1. The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
   • Innovation and dynamicism are essentially expressions describing the means by which firms attempt to cope with the uncertainty of the market.1987, Journal of Economics and International Relations - Volume 1, page 192
2. A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
   • In conclusion, I determine dynamicism's relation to symbolicism and connectionism and find that the dynamicist goal to establish a new paradigm has yet to be realized.1998, Paul Thagard, Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science
3. The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
   • Let us take, as an example, Maurice Peckham's definition of the romantic attitude as a belief in organic dynamicism, that is, as the belief that the universe is a single, organic, dynamic, meaningful whole rather than a chaos of interlinked mechanical causal chains.1965, Queen's Quarterly - Volume 72, page 214
4. The quality of being impermanent and changing.
   • Two central features common to all forms of Buddhism are the impermanence, that is, the dynamicism (anicca) of all being, and its fundamental unity and interdependence.1974, William Allen Hillix, Melvin Herman Marx, Systems and Theories in Psychology: a Reader, page 61
5. The quality of being exciting and powerful.
   • But, more properly, what a work of art possesses is balance, a bringing together and harmonizing of various dynamicisms.1952, William Joseph Grace, How to be Creative with Words, page 160