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dynamicism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /daɪˈnæmɪˌsɪzəm/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English dynamicism From dynamic + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
   • Furthermore, by varying the rate of change of the solution requirements for different jobs ("dynamicism"), the relative performance of these strategies in a dynamic environment can be determined. 2009, Jomi Fred Hubner, Eric T Matson, Olivier Boissier, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, page 40:
   • To capitalize on the opportunities related to dynamicism, advertisers and agencies will need to become more proficient in data-driven marketing applications. 2012, Bobby J. Calder, Kellogg on Advertising and Media:
   • Innovation and dynamicism are essentially expressions describing the means by which firms attempt to cope with the uncertainty of the market. 1987, Journal of Economics and International Relations - Volume 1, page 192:
   • The degree to which a business process structure supports such change is measured with the dynamicism metric. 1998, Gary S. Tjaden, “Measuring the Information Age Business”, in Alan L. Porter, William H. Read, editors, The Information Revolution: Current and Future Consequences, page 16:
2. (countable, uncountable) A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
   • We also arague that the thesis that computationalism, connectionism and dynamicism are mutually exclusive is wrong. 2013, Nir Fresco, Physical Computation and Cognitive Science, page 196:
   • In conclusion, I determine dynamicism's relation to symbolicism and connectionism and find that the dynamicist goal to establish a new paradigm has yet to be realized. 1998, Paul Thagard, Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science:
   • Recall the basics of dynamicism : it proposes a change of metaphors for cognition , from information processing to control ; it focuses on sensorimotor and social coordination in real-time, as the outcome of basic processes , from which higher cognitive abilities are thought to emerge ; 2008, Manuel de Vega, Arthur M. Glenberg, Arthur C. Graesser, Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on Meaning and Cognition:
3. (countable, uncountable) The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
   • Dynamicism seeks criteria for judging the potentialities and fruitfulness of our hypotheses, rather than a warrant for truth. 1993, Aharon Kantorovich, Scientific Discovery: Logic and Tinkering, page 106:
   • Let us take, as an example, Maurice Peckham's definition of the romantic attitude as a belief in organic dynamicism, that is, as the belief that the universe is a single, organic, dynamic, meaningful whole rather than a chaos of interlinked mechanical causal chains. 1965, Queen's Quarterly - Volume 72, page 214:
   • Systemism somehow entails dynamicism (or process ontology), because every interaction causes changes, both internal and external. 2013, Stephen Chrisomalis, André Costopoulos, Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger, page 152:
4. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being impermanent and changing.
   • For nearly a century, it has been the fashion of the social sciences, particularly in my native America, to be enamored of a kind of environmentalistic dynamicism which has restricted the consideration of static elements within the human polity. 1977, William P. Kreml, The Anti-Authoritarian Personality, page ix:
   • Although entirely subjectivist in its final stages, however, the creativity symbolism still musters a good deal of dynamicism, and on occasion it draws together the personal leitmotivs of the Gikonyo-Mumbi relationship in some eloquent moments of expressivity. 2000, Peter Nazareth, Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo, page 163:
   • Two central features common to all forms of Buddhism are the impermanence, that is, the dynamicism (anicca) of all being, and its fundamental unity and interdependence. 1974, William Allen Hillix, Melvin Herman Marx, Systems and Theories in Psychology: a Reader, page 61:
5. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being exciting and powerful.
   • But, more properly, what a work of art possesses is balance, a bringing together and harmonizing of various dynamicisms. 1952, William Joseph Grace, How to be Creative with Words, page 160:
   • For example, a combination of red (excitement) and yellow (happiness) evokes a feeling of dynamicism. 2012, Roger C. Griffin, Principles of Package Development, page 271:
   • The shopwindow quality of variety theater as a panorama of the “Futurist marvelous,” the simultaneity and the dynamicism of “overpowering dance rhythms”; the fastpaced succession of acts, the illogical structure of the scenic fragments; 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes:

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