swingingness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From swinging +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

swingingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being swinging.
    • 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.