English Explanatory Dictionary

dynamicism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The degree to which a process adapts to changing data or requirements.
  2. A cognitive model that sees cognition as a complex dynamic interaction between the agent and its environment.
  3. The belief that reality is a dynamic, changing process rather than a set of static facts or deterministic chains of causality.
  4. The quality of being impermanent and changing.
  5. The quality of being exciting and powerful.

Pronunciation

/daɪˈnæmɪˌsɪzəm/

Word forms

dynamicism dynamicisms

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *dunamai Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai) Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek δῠνᾰμῐκός (dŭnămĭkós)lbor. French dynamiqueder. English dynamic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō 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.

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