dynamism

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun any of the various theories or doctrines or philosophical systems that attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of some immanent force or energy
noun active strength of body or mind
noun the activeness of an energetic personality

From English dynam(ic) (or directly from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”)) + ism.

The hidden dynamism of self-contradiction is what incessantly produces the static appearance by which your sense is fooled." — The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
THE ORGANIZATION OF CONSCIOUS STATES FREE WILL It is easy to see why the question of free will brings into conflict these two rival systems of nature, mechanism and dynamism. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson
Gwenna had danced with an Apache, with a Primitive Man, with Mr. Hugo Swayne (in a mask and crazy-work domino as a Simultaneous Dynamism of Something), and she was standing waiting, one of a figure in a revived cotillon. — The Boy with Wings, Berta Ruck

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