Affluence vs Privilege - What's the difference?
affluence | privilege |
(obsolete) An abundant flow or supply.
An abundance of wealth.
A moderate level of wealth.
An influx.
A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise; preferential treatment.
The status or existence of such benefit or advantage.
(legal) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
(finance) A call, put, spread, or other option.
(computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.
(archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.
(archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.
As nouns the difference between affluence and privilege
is that affluence is (obsolete) an abundant flow or supply while privilege is .affluence
English
Noun
(-)- His affluence was surpassed by no man.
- The had achieved affluence , but aspired to true wealth.
Synonyms
* richdom * See alsoAntonyms
* See also * indigenceDerived terms
* affluenzaprivilege
Alternative forms
* priviledg (obsolete) * priviledge (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege ?
- In order to advance racial equality in the United States, what we've got to do is reduce white privilege .
- ''Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege .