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Affluent vs Affluential - What's the difference?

affluent | affluential |

As nouns the difference between affluent and affluential

is that affluent is somebody who is wealthy while affluential is an affluent, influential person.

As adjectives the difference between affluent and affluential

is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while affluential is affluent and influential.

affluent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
  • * 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
    • The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
  • A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abundant; copious; plenteous.
  • * H. Reed
    • languageaffluent in expression
  • (label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent , with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • (label) Tributary.
  • (label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
  • * Harvey
    • affluent blood

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    Derived terms

    * affluence * affluently

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    affluential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • affluent and influential

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An affluent, influential person