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grooviness

grooviness

7.4
A strong, pleasing rhythm in music that makes people want to dance
  • noun
  • /ˈɡruːvɪnəs/
  • Archaic
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  • The band's grooviness made everyone on the dance floor feel alive.

Examples

  • When the typical grooviness kicks back in, it's easy to tell it's the same old; and that's perfectly okay by me, but it was definitely an interesting suggestion going on there.

    Blog text (34)

  • The grooviness here is the key point that will keep you wanting more spins out of this until your head hurts and then some.

    Blog text (34)

  • Awright, the vibrations are right now. I feel peace and love here today. I feel a grooviness coming on. Do you, Ray Manzarek, take your lady love... (etc.) fill the white wings of death?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Many people appreciate the grooviness of 70s funk music.

  • The grooviness of her style caught everyone's attention at the party.

Synonyms

musicality
vsgrooviness
5 5.5

A strong sense of music and rhythm that makes speech or movement pleasant

focuses more on stylish pleasurable rhythm than purely musical skill
stylishness
vsgrooviness
1 3.6

A quality of being fashionable and attractive

stresses rhythmic enjoyment and musical vibe rather than fashion elegance
jazziness
vsgrooviness
4.2

A lively, stylish quality like music with a strong beat

is broader, applying to any strong pleasing rhythm not only jazz

Antonyms

dissonance
  • Specialized
2 7.7

A harsh or unpleasant combination of sounds often in music

How Rhythmic

grooviness
  • Archaic
7.4
rhythm
301 3.3
flatness
1 4.9

Surface Forms

grooviness singular
groovinesses plural

Morphology

grooviness = groovy (semi-transparent) = groovy + ness

The suffix '-ness' is transparent, but the meaning of 'groovy' in a musical context is specialized.

Etymology

Grooviness comes from groove, the steady musical pattern that makes you want to move, and from groovy, which means being 'in the groove' or in rhythm. So grooviness is the quality of having a strong, pleasing rhythmic feel in music.