electrodynamismn.
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1887 Science 3 June 542/1 The trance caused by regarding fixedly a gleaming point, produces in the brain, in his opinion, an accumulation of a peculiar nervous power, which he [sc. Dr. Philips] calls ‘electrodynamism’.
2. = electrodynamics n. rare.
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electrodynamism1889
1889 Science 8 Nov. 318/2 No artificial chemical combination would be capable of conferring on a water this micro-organic life, any more than of conferring upon it the electrodynamism of telluric elaboration.
2006 P. Foussier From Product Descr. to Cost I. x. 172 This is done by finding abstract concepts (such as the forces in the description of motion, the fields in electrodynamism, [etc.].).
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