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Inflow vs Inflowing - What's the difference?

inflow | inflowing |

As nouns the difference between inflow and inflowing

is that inflow is the act or process of flowing in or into while inflowing is the act of process of flowing in; inflow.

As verbs the difference between inflow and inflowing

is that inflow is to flow in while inflowing is .

As an adjective inflowing is

flowing in or inward.

inflow

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of flowing in or into
  • Anything which flows in or into
  • The inflow of air
  • Influence.
  • *2000 , Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure :
  • But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
  • *2008 , Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity :
  • Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
  • *2010 , Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality :
  • Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.

    Synonyms

    * influx

    Antonyms

    * outflow * outflux

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow in.
  • (Wiseman)

    inflowing

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of process of flowing in; inflow.
  • *1907 , Emanuel Swedenborg, Theological Works :
  • The reason why this is so is that the Lord, by influx from Himself, actuates all things of the soul and all things of the mind, with angels, spirits, and men, — and actuates them by an inflowing' of love and wisdom, and this ' inflowing is the very activity from which all delight comes,— […]

    Etymology 2

    From (m).

    Verb

    (head)
  • Etymology 3

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • flowing in or inward