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fluxus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables
fluxus
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.

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Etymology

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

Origin

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Questions

What does fluxus mean?
An international movement of artists, poets, composers and designers of the 1960s and 1970s, noted for experimental syntheses of different media and disciplines.
Where does fluxus come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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