Etymology

Fluxus

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Today it means: An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines. Full definition →

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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromflūxus“flow”
  2. English todayFluxus

Coined by Lithuanian American artist George Maciunas in 1961 as the title of a proposed magazine, from Latin flūxus (“flow”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.