• Dynamism (metaphysics)
  Dynamism (metaphysics)
  Dynamism is a metaphysical concept conceived by Gottfried Leibniz and developed into a full system of cosmology. Dynamism in metaphysical cosmology explains the material world in terms of active, pointlike forces, with no extension but with action at a distance...
  
  , a cosmological explanation of the material world in the vein of process philosophy
  Process philosophy
  Process philosophy identifies metaphysical reality with change and dynamism. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers have posited true reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances, whilst processes are denied or subordinated to timeless substances...
  
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• Dynamism (company), a Japanese retailer specializing in exports.
• Dynamism, a term used by Virginia Postrel
  Virginia Postrel
  Virginia I. Postrel is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two non-fiction books, The Future and Its Enemies and The Substance of Style...
  
   to describe her social philosophy that embraces cultural change, individual choice, and the open society.
• "Plastic dynamism", a term used by the Italian futurist
  Futurism (art)
  Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized and glorified themes associated with contemporary concepts of the future, including speed, technology, youth and violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane and the industrial city...
  
   art movement to describe a concept pertaining to an object's motion, both intrinsic and relative to its environment.
• The activeness of an energetic personality.

See also

• Dynamis (Greek
  Greek language
  Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
  
  : δύναμις), an Ancient Greek
  Ancient Greek
  Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
  
   word meaning "power"
• Dynamicism
  Dynamicism
  Dynamicism, also termed the dynamic hypothesis or the dynamic hypothesis in cognitive science or dynamic cognition, is a new approach in cognitive science exemplified by the work of philosopher Tim van Gelder. It argues that differential equations are more suited to modelling cognition than more...
  
  , the application of dynamical systems theory to cognitive science