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Outflux vs Inflow - What's the difference?

outflux | inflow | Antonyms |

Outflux is an antonym of inflow.


As verbs the difference between outflux and inflow

is that outflux is to exit out of a defined zone while inflow is to flow in.

As nouns the difference between outflux and inflow

is that outflux is that which exits (the flux out of a defined zone) while inflow is the act or process of flowing in or into.

outflux

English

Verb

  • To exit out of a defined zone.
  • Noun

    (es)
  • That which exits (the flux out of a defined zone)
  • Antonyms

    *influx

    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)