movingness

Noun

movingness (uncountable)

1. The power or property of moving; momentum.
   • 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...
   • 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. A 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
   • The movingness is a flashing sensation interpreted as motion by virtue of the circumstances connected with it.2001, Steven Yantis, Visual Perception, page 163
3. The 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
   • 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