dynamism

From English dynam(ic) +‎ -ism.

dynamism (countable and uncountable, plural dynamisms)

1. Great energy, drive, force, or power; vigour of body, mind or personality; oomph or pizzazz
2. Dynamic reality; active energy; continuous change, progress, or activity.

   The fact that the war is no longer the main issue in the election points to the dynamism of foreign affairs.

   • 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:

     But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?

3. (philosophy, metaphysics) Any of several philosophical theories that attempt to explain the universe by an immanent force.