opulence

Noun

Meaning

Wealth; riches; affluence.

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Examples

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. Joseph Conrad

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. Aldo Leopold

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. Adam Smith

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. David Ricardo

In a community wherepublic services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. John Kenneth Galbraith

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor. Jerome

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