Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude. · The movement of a real or figurative fluid. · A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set. · The rising movement of the tide.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plōw-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-der.? Proto-Germanic *flōaną Proto-West Germanic *flōan Old English flōwan Middle English flowen Middle English flowe English flow From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.
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