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affluence

The origin and history of affluence.

Etymology

Comes from Old French affluence, from Latin affluentia. Its only link to the antonym indigence is a shared Latinate suffix; affluence did not gain its sense of wealth until 16th-century English and French, while indigentia meant “poverty” or “lack” in Latin.

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