movingness

moving +‎ -ness

movingness (uncountable)

1. The power or property of moving; momentum.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1991, Chris Athey, Extending Thought in Young Children, page 181:

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

   • 2022, Simon Clark, Firmament:

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

2. A quality that suggests movement.
   • 1942, Gordon Lynn Walls, The Vertebrate Eye and its Adaptive Radiation, page 360:

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

   • 2001, Steven Yantis, Visual Perception, page 163:

     The movingness is a flashing sensation interpreted as motion by virtue of the circumstances connected with it.

   • 2013, M. D. Vernon, Visual Perception, page 162:

     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.

3. The quality of being emotionally moving.
   • 1893, Matilda Betham-Edwards, The Curb of Honour, page 178:

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

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

     Finally, we investigated whether perceived movingness would also mediate the effect of perceived sadness on perceived beauty.

   • 2019, Michael Bishop, Earth and Mind, page 102:

     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.