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Definition of State of flux
1. Noun. A state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action. "The flux following the death of the emperor"
Lexicographical Neighbors of State Of Flux
Literary usage of State of flux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"III. ch. 7 ; Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. i. BOOK If. Aboriginal America.
Low languages, in a state of flux. ..."
2. A Short History of the Scottish Highlands and Isles by William Cook Mackenzie (1906)
"... power of song—The decline of the bagpipe—Society in a state of flux—The cottages
of the peasantry—Their diet—The backwardness of agriculture—The decline ..."
3. Microbes and Men by Robert Tuttle Morris (1915)
"We may place them in serial order if we like, as follows: New York—a city of man,
in a state of flux, being built up on the one side and broken down and ..."
4. The First Philosophers of Greece: An Edition and Translation of the by Arthur Fairbanks (1898)
"... corporeal and always in a state of flux, and the moving is known by the moving;
and he agreed with most thinkers in holding that things are in motion. ..."
5. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"I may remark, however, by the way, that though the constant state of flux of the
corporeal particles furnishes no argument against the identity of the ..."
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