MEANING
1. Energy and initiative shown in vigorous activity or continuing development.
2. A philosophical view that explains reality through underlying forces or energies.
Use it for
describing an active, innovative organization; contrasting economic activity with stagnation; portraying a movement’s energy without naming one leader; evaluating the vitality of a changing systemDistinguishes energetic activity or continuing development from a static condition, while preserving a separate philosophical meaning. Writing functions: Change / Pattern / Trend, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- economic dynamism
- entrepreneurial dynamism
- the dynamism of a movement
On the page
The chapter links the town’s dynamism to the frequent creation of small enterprises.
Her account captures the movement’s dynamism without assuming that every change was beneficial.
The essay uses dynamism for a doctrine of underlying forces, not for the author’s energetic style.
In that account of natural philosophy, dynamism makes force central to the explanation of matter.
Word forms
- Base
- dynamism
Usage notes
Normally an uncountable noun: dynamism. The philosophical use names a doctrine rather than a personality trait. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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