Antonyms for affluence
ˈæf lu əns or, sometimes, əˈflu-af·flu·ence

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1. affluencenoun

   Antonyms:
   indigence

2. affluencenoun

   Antonyms:
   indigence

3. affluencenoun

   His affluence was surpassed by no man.

   Antonyms:
   indigence

4. affluencenoun

   The had achieved affluence, but aspired to true wealth.

   Antonyms:
   indigence

5. affluencenoun

   Antonyms:
   indigence

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. affluence

   Antonyms:
   economy, frugality, miserliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrift

   Synonyms:
   abundance, bounty, extravagance, liberality, luxury, opulence, riches, waste, wealth

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. affluence

   Antonyms:
   want, scarcity, penury, indigence, poverty, impecuniosity, straitness, lack

   Synonyms:
   abundance, plenty, wealth, riches, opulence

Matched Categories

1. • Wealth

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. affluence, richnessnoun

   abundant wealth

   "they studied forerunners of richness or poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had expected to find poverty"

   Synonyms:
   cornucopia, rankness, prolificacy, profuseness, impressiveness, fertility, magnificence, mellowness, grandness, profusion, richness, fullness

How to use affluence in a sentence?

1. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi:

   My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

2. Democratic Socialist:

   In both Norway and Sweden, whose economies are literally dwarfed by the size of our affluence and the extent of our technology, they have no unemployment and no slums, there, men, women and children have long enjoyed free medical care and quality education. This contrast to the limited, halting steps taken by our rich nation deeply troubled me.

3. Joan Didion:

   A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

4. Adam Smith:

   The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

5. Longfellow:

   With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought: they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under the ground.

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