movingness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The movingness of cars or planes was represented, as was the movingness of writing as a continuous movement of the pencil across paper."
- "A light object has less movingness than a heavy object travelling at the same speed."
- "Slowed down to simulate the successive phase, the really-moving light loses its blur of movingness."
- "The movingness is a flashing sensation interpreted as motion by virtue of the circumstances connected with it."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old Northern French moverbor. Middle English moven English moving Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English movingness From moving + -ness.