state of flux

1. 1.

   a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action

   “the flux following the death of the emperor”

   Synonymsflux

   Broaderstate

Questions about state of flux

What does state of flux mean?

state of flux means "a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action".

What is another word for state of flux?

Close synonyms include flux. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is state of flux a common word?

state of flux is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.