danciness
nounEtymology From dancy + -ness.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.
- 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:
- The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time.2007 September 25, Alastair Macaulay, “An Idiomatic Balanchine, Walking the Walk in Seattle”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- dancily, danceability