OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12327

vortex

/ˈvɔɹtɛks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vórtice
Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
It’s hard to imagine that there is any major American clothing brand that does not have a store in the consumer vortex that is East Hampton; […]
Montreal in the summer is a vortex of decadent food, 24-ounce cocktails and carefree people. We reveled in it, danced, swam in fountains.
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