kineticism

American  

[ki-net-uh-siz-uhm, kahy-] / kɪˈnɛt əˌsɪz əm, kaɪ- /

noun

1. the quality or state of being kinetic.

2. kinetic art.

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Other Word Forms

• kineticist noun

Etymology

Origin of kineticism

First recorded in 1935–40; kinetic + -ism

Example Sentences

Driven by a dark kineticism, it vacillates between contempt and gratitude at a velocity that catches my husband, my therapist, even me off-guard.

From Los Angeles Times

More than a half-century later, though, the jolting kineticism of Friedkin’s approach feels like something almost akin to classicism, in its back-to-basics spirit and furious texture.

From Los Angeles Times

Additional scope and kineticism was achieved inside a Toronto convention center, otherwise closed by COVID-19 lockdowns, where the barn’s two-story interior was reproduced.

From Los Angeles Times

But from its second movement — a curiously titled “Blues … ” — onward, the concerto deepens in color and intensifies in kineticism.

From Washington Post

But as more than one onlooker observed, it felt like unjust treatment for a popular work of art that — in its beauty and kineticism, its political acuity and formal mastery — towered over most of the work vying for the Palme d’Or that year.

From Los Angeles Times