AFFLUENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affluence mean? 

• AFFLUENCE (noun)
  The noun AFFLUENCE has 1 sense:

1. abundant wealth

  Familiarity information: AFFLUENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFLUENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abundant wealth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

affluence; richness

Context example:

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

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)

 Context examples 

They were under a yoke,—I could free them: they were scattered,—I could reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She had been used to affluence: it was gone.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Born to the prospect of such affluence!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You will take in the whole of the past, you will consider times, persons, and probabilities, and you will feel that they were not least your friends who were educating and preparing you for that mediocrity of condition which seemed to be your lot. Though their caution may prove eventually unnecessary, it was kindly meant; and of this you may be assured, that every advantage of affluence will be doubled by the little privations and restrictions that may have been imposed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr Elliot, raised by his marriage to great affluence, and disposed to every gratification of pleasure and vanity which could be commanded without involving himself, (for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man), and beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought to have found himself to be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that friend's probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and the Smiths accordingly had been ruined.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost every thing that could make it a blessing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jane, I excuse you for the present: two months' grace I allow you for the full enjoyment of your new position, and for pleasing yourself with this late-found charm of relationship; but then, I hope you will begin to look beyond Moor House and Morton, and sisterly society, and the selfish calm and sensual comfort of civilised affluence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)