Other forms: influxes
An influx is a large arrival of people or things. A sudden influx, an influx of visitors, an influx of cash.
The word is neutral in form and rarely in tone, since an influx of people is usually being complained about. The Latin means a flowing in, which is where the sense of numbers arriving at once comes from.
1nouninfluxA large arrival of people or things.
“The town sees a huge influx of tourists every summer.”
influx is an arrival.
Latin influxus comes from influere, to flow in, from in plus fluere, to flow.
Latin
īnflūxus — inflow; influence
English, today
influx
Built from
From Latin īnflūxus (“inflow; influence”), from īnfluō (“flow or run into”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA