dartingness en · NOUN
Etymology
From darting + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of motion of something that darts.
With the speed and grace of an eel, a dartingness and pouncingness nobody had expected from his burly person, Lewellyn had reached for one of the punk's wrists with both hands.
1961, Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, page 180: