dynamicism

From dynamic + -ism.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /daɪˈnæmɪˌsɪzəm/

dynamicism (countable and uncountable, plural dynamicisms)

1. The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
   • 1987, Journal of Economics and International Relations - Volume 1, page 192:

     Innovation and dynamicism are essentially expressions describing the means by which firms attempt to cope with the uncertainty of the market.

   • 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:

     The degree to which a business process structure supports such change is measured with the dynamicism metric.

   • 2009, Jomi Fred Hubner, Eric T Matson, Olivier Boissier, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, page 40:

     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.

   • 2012, Bobby J. Calder, Kellogg on Advertising and Media:

     To capitalize on the opportunities related to dynamicism, advertisers and agencies will need to become more proficient in data-driven marketing applications.

2. A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
   • 1998, Paul Thagard, Mind Readings: Introductory Selections on Cognitive Science:

     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.

   • 2008, Manuel de Vega, Arthur M. Glenberg, Arthur C. Graesser, Symbols and Embodiment: Debates on Meaning and Cognition:

     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 ;

   • 2013, Nir Fresco, Physical Computation and Cognitive Science, page 196:

     We also arague that the thesis that computationalism, connectionism and dynamicism are mutually exclusive is wrong.

3. The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
   • 1965, Queen's Quarterly - Volume 72, page 214:

     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.

   • 1993, Aharon Kantorovich, Scientific Discovery: Logic and Tinkering, page 106:

     Dynamicism seeks criteria for judging the potentialities and fruitfulness of our hypotheses, rather than a warrant for truth.

   • 2013, Stephen Chrisomalis, André Costopoulos, Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger, page 152:

     Systemism somehow entails dynamicism (or process ontology), because every interaction causes changes, both internal and external.

4. The quality of being impermanent and changing.
   • 1974, William Allen Hillix, Melvin Herman Marx, Systems and Theories in Psychology: a Reader, page 61:

     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.

   • 1977, William P. Kreml, The Anti-Authoritarian Personality, page ix:

     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.

   • 2000, Peter Nazareth, Critical Essays on Ngũgĩ Wa Thiongʼo, page 163:

     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.

5. The quality of being exciting and powerful.
   • 1952, William Joseph Grace, How to be Creative with Words, page 160:

     But, more properly, what a work of art possesses is balance, a bringing together and harmonizing of various dynamicisms.

   • 2012, Roger C. Griffin, Principles of Package Development, page 271:

     For example, a combination of red (excitement) and yellow (happiness) evokes a feeling of dynamicism.

   • 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes:

     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;