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Elegance vs Affluence - What's the difference?

elegance | affluence |

As nouns the difference between elegance and affluence

is that elegance is grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners while affluence is an abundant flow or supply.

elegance

English

(wikipedia elegance)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
    • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
    • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
    • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
    • , passage=Phineas Duge

    Related terms

    * elegant

    affluence

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) An abundant flow or supply.
  • An abundance of wealth.
    • His affluence was surpassed by no man.
  • A moderate level of wealth.
    • The had achieved affluence , but aspired to true wealth.
  • An influx.

    • Synonyms

    * richdom * See also

    Antonyms

    * See also * indigence

    Derived terms

    * affluenza

    Related terms

    * affluent