danciness

English

Etymology

dancy +‎ -ness

Noun

danciness (uncountable)

1. (music) The quality of being dancy, suitable to or filled with dance.
   • 1998, Robert G. O'Meally, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, page 536:

     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.

   • 2007 September 25, Alastair Macaulay, “An Idiomatic Balanchine, Walking the Walk in Seattle”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The sheer danciness of most Balanchine ballets gives audiences a basically exhilarating time.

Related terms

• dancily
• danceability