What's the difference between affluence and effluence?

Affluence


Definition:

  • (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
  • (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
  • (2) Other ‘norm’ areas, for example Trafford, will have extremes, ie, areas of affluence against areas of deprivation, which is normally shown in findings like this.
  • (3) None of the students attributed AIDS to mystical forces, while some associated it with affluence.
  • (4) The rise was greatest in the areas of most affluence.
  • (5) Bercow says the commission will need to ask "searching questions about the digital divide, the haves and have-nots of the internet and the smartphone, not least because of the accumulating evidence that the Berlin Wall which undoubtedly exists in this terrain is no longer about age but relates to affluence and the lack of it".
  • (6) The considerable adult male mortality appears to be related to the rapidly acquired affluence and the ready availability of motorcycles, cars, imported foods, tobacco, and alcohol.
  • (7) One of the first guests was the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith , best known for his critique of private affluence amid public squalor.
  • (8) Recent attempts to portray the relative affluence of the current generation of older Americans as causing economic hardship for younger generations are examined in this paper.
  • (9) To test this belief I have assessed the exposure of Black people, in time and degree, to the following CHD risk factors: affluence, age, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, dietary excess, smoking, physical inactivity, diabetes, obesity, hyperuricaemia and hyperinsulinism.
  • (10) Affluence and a rising standard of living were taken for granted, and Britain's political and constitutional system was widely admired as a symbol of stability and ordered progress.
  • (11) Ernst von Weizsaecker, an environmental scientist who co-chaired the panel, said: “Rising affluence is triggering a shift in diets towards meat and dairy products - livestock now consumes much of the world’s crops and by inference a great deal of freshwater, fertilisers and pesticides.” Both energy and agriculture need to be “decoupled” from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.
  • (12) The data indicated a successive decline in the duration of breastfeeding with increasing affluence, and late introduction of weaning foods to rural children.
  • (13) A 100-strong "affluence team" is being drawn from 2,250 newly-recruited tax inspectors expected to be in place within weeks.
  • (14) With the overall affluence of the society, health care in terms of immunization has improved dramatically and more than 90% of all children are covered.
  • (15) Many in the outside world argue that political liberalisation will follow automatically with increased affluence.
  • (16) As the government must know, the growing affluence of the population will only increase the pressure for civil liberty in China.
  • (17) Modernization of this society through the affluence acquired by the mining of phosphate has led to serious public health problems relating to non-communicable diseases so that the mortality trends now mirror those of developed societies.
  • (18) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
  • (19) Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the summit , warned: 'No place on the planet could remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
  • (20) This however, is not the case with weight variability where, in addition to the mean, there is evidence of independent effects of affluence, altitude, and especially latitude.

Effluence


Definition:

  • (n.) A flowing out, or emanation.
  • (n.) That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water vapours were shown to cause electrolyte effluence and hence the appearance of the leakage eddy currents amounted up to 22mA through the insulation of electrodes.
  • (2) During the initial period of oral feeding, glucose excretion in the ileostomy fluid must be monitored, as glucose-positive ileostomy effluence necessitates additional sodium substitution in order to activate the sodium and glucose cotransport.
  • (3) The effluence of cell components was observed in susceptible P. aeruginosa by electron microscopy, but resistant P. aeruginosa seemed to be undamaged.
  • (4) Organ damage was evaluated by measurement of pancreatic enzymes in the portal effluence.
  • (5) Careful planning of the operative procedure, adequate exposure, complete mobilization of the retrohepatic vena cava and control of the hepatic venous effluence will allow patients with retrohepatic vena caval occlusions to be managed safely and successfully.
  • (6) It is a tragedy for England that it has become contaminated by this river of effluence.
  • (7) However, ginsenoside Ro was found to be effective in hypercoagulable state, increase of connective tissue in the artery and calcium effluence from the bone in adjuvant-induced arthritic rats.
  • (8) (b) THL was ineffective, FUT lowered the release of pancreatic enzymes into the portal effluence, and albumin was most effective.
  • (9) Treatment of waste water for pesticide removal or neutralization prior to effluence from factories and disposal of effluence to legally designated sites in addition to chemical treatment of contaminated water are more ways of reducing water pollution.
  • (10) The introduction of different types of pollutants like those from industrial effluence, bye-products from petro-chemical industries, pesticidal application, wastages of nuclear power industries, etc.
  • (11) Morphogenesis of the chronic disturbance of lymph effluence from the heart was studied in the course of experimental alimentary atherosclerosis and in combination of atherosclerotic dyslipoproteinemia with recurrent coronary failure.

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