fluxure

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/ˈflʌkʃʊə(ɹ)//ˈflʌkʃə(ɹ)/

noun

The quality of being fluid; fluidity.

OriginLatin flūxūra →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteThe quality of being fluid; fluidity.

    Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties, Moiſture and Fluxure: […]

    1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Inductio”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, signature B ij, verso
  2. obsoleteFluid matter.

    Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.

    1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 27”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 136

Origin

  1. Latinflūxūra“a flowing”
  2. Englishfluxure

From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).

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APA

fluxure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluxure

MLA

“fluxure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluxure. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fluxure,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fluxure.

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