affluence
[af-loo-uh ns or, often, uh-floo-]
- abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches; wealth.
- an abundant supply, as of thoughts or words; profusion.
- a flowing to or toward; afflux.
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Origin of affluence
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Contemporary Examples
Jazz is linked in the mind of marketers with affluence, but the economics of jazz have never been worse.
Why have we conflated "excellence" with affluence, driven parents, and a relentless will to conform on the part of the kids?
Their affluence and attachment to luxury makes military service unpopular.
Rebecca Greenfield went through a long list, including geography, building code limitations, and affluence.
On that score, the affluence of much of the country is a resource.
Historical Examples
With her, I need hardly say it, would come plenty, affluence.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Affluence we may know, but poverty is apt to be our companion.
The StrollersFrederic S. Isham
Here it is affluence and age, there it is beauty and poverty.
The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)Charles James Lever
I have already told my reader that my youth was not passed in affluence.
Sir Jasper CarewCharles James Lever
In their visionary leaps to affluence they soared to giddy heights.
The Trail of '98Robert W. Service
affluence
- an abundant supply of money, goods, or property; wealth
- rare abundance or profusion
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Word Origin and History for affluence
n.
mid-14c., "a plentiful flowing, an abundance," from Old French affluence, from Latin affluentia "a flowing to," figuratively "affluence, abundance," noun of state from affluentem (nominative affluens) "flowing toward, abounding, rich, copious" (see affluent). Sense of "wealth" attested from c.1600, from notion of "a plentiful flow" (of the gifts of fortune).
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