(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.
Opulence
Definition:
(n.) Wealth; riches; affluence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) Using skills acquired in his first job with the accountancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers and his second, buying and selling companies for JP Morgan, he minted a commercial model from the calm opulence of United's discreet Mayfair office that soon became the envy of the football world.
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) The film attacked Luzhkov's opulent lifestyle and that of his wife, Yelena Baturina, the world's third richest woman.
(5) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
(6) This is a song so opulently miserable that it's almost a parody of heartbreak songs.
(7) Merkel was on Monday the first western leader to woo Erdoğan in his new presidential palace in Ankara, a widely mocked exercise in over-the-top opulence that cost a reported $600m (£415m) to build.
(8) The wedding was a characteristically opulent affair, with specially made china bearing the logo Prince had taken to using in lieu of a name in the wake of his rebellion against his record label, Warner Brothers (he was known publicly as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince at the time).
(9) The refurbishment of the Kensington Palace apartment for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, a renovation boosted by £4.5m of taxpayers' money, has made the space neither "lavish" nor "opulent" but just like "an ordinary family home", according to royal aides.
(10) On Sunday, almost a year after the internet entrepreneur and several of his associates were arrested in a spectacular dawn raid on the mansion, about 200 invited guests will gather at the opulent estate for the launch of Mega.
(11) This time, though, Valery Gergiev and co are not bringing one of their Russian specialities, but Die Frau ohne Schatten, the most opulent of Richard Strauss's operas.
(12) Relaxing in his opulent Thames-side penthouse apartment, the only BBC presenter to be openly critical of the former BBC Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas in the wake of the "Sachsgate" affair is as garrulous as ever.
(13) It is made of luxurious materials including silver and silk, with an ostrich feather and a neat row of holes that would once have carried an opulently jewelled hatband.
(14) But if you’re investor Carl Icahn, billionaire owner of Atlantic City’s decaying but still opulent, elephant-fronted Taj, you have some odds in your favor.
(15) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum The sheer opulence of the materials, including little pearls and gems stitched into the fabric, doomed many of the items when they fell out of fashion or favour after the Reformation and there were bonfires of precious fabrics to recover the gold and silver from the thread.
(16) Based on this information, a subsegment of the total area is delineated as a possible neighborhood for an office location and a physician-opulation ratio for this subsegment is determined.
(17) Flamboyant opulence and welfare-to-work, it's fair to say, are not the easiest of fits.
(18) I remember sitting in my parents’ council house in Carshalton and hearing about the incredibly opulent funeral of Queen Mary and thinking, no matter how rich or important you are, life always ends the same way.
(19) If you see a medieval city on screen today, chances are it was knocked up on a computer, and even as you watch it, all this on screen opulence – based on binary units of data – will look as convincing a year from now as the back-projection in Hitchcock's Marnie.
(20) The former Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb has provided 11 luxury watches to secure the $10m (£6.4m) bond that enabled his release from custody, along with his wife’s wedding ring, three opulent cars and 10 properties.