(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.
Luxuriance
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(2) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(3) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
(4) He reduced the standard rate to 8%, but introduced a higher rate of 12.5% for petrol and some luxury goods, doubling the upper rate later that year to 25% before lowering it in 1976.
(5) Likewise, Brynjolfsson doesn’t find the idea of machine-generated populist luxury outlandish.
(6) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(7) Scheveningen's prison's spacious, individual cells and family rooms for visits may soon seem luxurious in comparison with the cold comfort of life behind bars in England.
(8) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(9) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(10) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(11) "You look at Tesco and Morrisons, they are feeling the effects, so it's no wonder I'm finding it hard to get people to buy what are effectively luxury items they don't really need."
(12) Not everybody has the luxury of being able to earn 20% less, but I wager more people could than do now.
(13) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(14) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(15) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
(16) If you look around at how incredibly luxurious some base camps are, you can see their point," he said.
(17) While companies such as Google and luxury brands like Lexus have dominated the headlines with advances in driverless cars, Daimler board member Wolfgang Bernhard told reporters autonomous trucks were likely to hit the roads first.
(18) For luxury brands like Gucci, Prada and Burberry it is a way to clear unsold goods under the radar and McKenzie reveals that while fashion labels "don't like us to talk about them", they "make a ton of money out of their outlet businesses".
(19) Within the security of such luxury, it’s easy to laugh at Menstrual Hygiene Day.
(20) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.