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noun
1.
abundance of money, property, and other material goods; riches; wealth.
2.
an abundant supply, as of thoughts or words; profusion.
3.
a flowing to or toward; afflux.
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Example Sentences
- Periods of affluence are followed by a yearning for the simple and primitive.
- The leaders, the owners of plantations, were reduced from affluence to poverty.
- Or perhaps, ironically, affluence has yielded an attitude of entitlement that has come to permeate student life.
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Word Origin & History
affluence
mid-15c., "a flowing toward, an abundance," from O.Fr. affluence, from L. affluentia, noun of state from affluentem "flowing toward," prp. of affluere (see affluent). Sense of "wealth" attested from c.1600, from notion of "a plentiful flow" (of the gifts of fortune).
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