Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The power of moving; the quality of exciting the feelings, especially the tender feelings; affectingness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The power of moving.

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  • noun The power of moving.

Etymologies

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moving +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And without your movingness—they had no closer equivalent to “entropy”—if that is sealed out with you, then there is nothing for us but what was before.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • And without your movingness—they had no closer equivalent to “entropy”—if that is sealed out with you, then there is nothing for us but what was before.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • And without your movingness—they had no closer equivalent to “entropy”—if that is sealed out with you, then there is nothing for us but what was before.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • And without your movingness—they had no closer equivalent to “entropy”—if that is sealed out with you, then there is nothing for us but what was before.

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • By his tragical pretensions he has injured himself: his powers were inadequate to support them, and the seductive movingness at which he aimed was irreconcileable with overpowering energy.

    Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806

  • Just because you can’t have the ‘movingness,’ you’re going to kill it all, everywhere, is that it?

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Just because you can’t have the ‘movingness,’ you’re going to kill it all, everywhere, is that it?

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Just because you can’t have the ‘movingness,’ you’re going to kill it all, everywhere, is that it?

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

  • Just because you can’t have the ‘movingness,’ you’re going to kill it all, everywhere, is that it?

    THE WOUNDED SKY DIANE DUANE 1983

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