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AFFLUENCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abundant wealth

Example:

the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty

Synonyms:

affluence; richness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("affluence" is a kind of...):

wealth; wealthiness (the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "affluence"):

comfort; ease (a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state)

Derivation:

affluent (having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Anne Elliot, with all her claims of birth, beauty, and mind, to throw herself away at nineteen; involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining affluence, but in the chances of a most uncertain profession, and no connexions to secure even his farther rise in the profession, would be, indeed, a throwing away, which she grieved to think of!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She doubted the sincerity of this assurance no more than he had doubted it himself, and she thought of it for her daughters' sake with satisfaction, though as for herself she was persuaded that a much smaller provision than 7000L would support her in affluence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)