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swingingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From swinging + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being swinging.
    • 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: