flow
- noun
- /floʊ/
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- Eva now perceives herself as a part of the flow of life itself.
- a flow state
- a flow experience
- enter the flow
Now we're in a really strong, phenomenal flow and routine.
- Now we're in a really strong, phenomenal flow and routine.
- We're learning to just go into a flow, an artistic flow.
- We start to be in the flow state as other people call it.
- It's more ordinary for me to be stuck than to be in flow like, so.
- And the worst thing you can do when you're in flow is stop it.
- That's the state of flow being disrupted and interrupted as we speak.
- You know, it's is, you know, heightened perception flow kind of existence mind.
- Magic Mind Flow state now comes in a bottle.
- It's that beautiful beverage sipper flow state now comes in a bottle.
- Like Christianity, the way God, the flow, Wu Wang, the effortless way.
Examples
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Slovenian music students suggest that the experience of flow is a predictor of emotional well-being.
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We start to be in the flow state as other people call it.
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The majority of the research on Flow Theory has described flow state experiences.
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Is there an element of flow state here?
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Third, participants in a flow state are very focused on the task at hand.
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I'm just like trying to stay loose and stay in flow state all the time.
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This must be where musicians come when they get into a flow.
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A fifth characteristic that participants in a flow state report is a transformation of time.
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When she is painting, she often enters a flow state, losing track of time and finishing her best work.
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Many athletes report that they perform best when they are in a flow, completely immersed in their activity.
Antonyms
Compounds
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Money that comes into and goes out of a business or person during a period
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A liquid or gas moves in smooth layers that flow side by side with little mixing
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A diagram that shows the order of steps in a process like a computer program
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Blood that comes from inside a woman's body each month during her period
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A machine with spinning blades that lets air or water flow along the shaft
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A diagram that shows the order of steps in a process, like a computer program or accounting system
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A clean room where air moves in smooth parallel layers to keep tiny particles away during work like making microchips
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A steady flow of a liquid or gas where speed stays the same at every point
How Focused
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flow comes from an old English word flōwan meaning moving water, and that river image helps explain the mental 'flow' where ideas move easily and a person works without stopping, like being carried along by a calm stream.