danciness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English dancy 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 danciness From dancy + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.
These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.
1998, Robert G. O'Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, page 536:The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time.
2007 September 25, Alastair Macaulay, “An Idiomatic Balanchine, Walking the Walk in Seattle”, in New York Times: