different between affluent vs embourgeoisement

English

Etymology

Middle French affluent, from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of afflu?ns, present active participle of afflu? (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + flu? (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence.

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • IPA^(key): /?æf.lu.?nt/

• (US)
  • enPR: ?f'lo?o-?nt, IPA^(key): /?æflu??nt/
  • enPR: ?-flo?o'?nt, ?-flo?o'?nt, IPA^(key): /æ?flu??nt/, /??flu??nt/
  • Although the pronunciation with second-syllable stress does occur in educated U.S. usage, it is appreciably less common than the pronunciation with first-syllable stress and is regarded as unacceptable by many American speakers.

Noun

affluent (plural affluents)

1. 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.

2. A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:moneybags

Translations

Adjective

affluent (comparative more affluent, superlative most affluent)

1. Abundant; copious; plenteous.
2. (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.

   They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.

   The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.

3. (dated) Tributary.
4. (obsolete) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

     affluent blood

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:wealthy

Antonyms

• indigent

Derived terms

• affluence
• affluently

Translations

References

French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fly.??/

Adjective

affluent (feminine singular affluente, masculine plural affluents, feminine plural affluentes)

1. tributary

Noun

affluent m (plural affluents)

1. tributary; affluent

Related terms

• affluence
• affluer

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fly/

Verb

affluent

1. third-person plural present indicative of affluer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of affluer

Further reading

• “affluent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

affluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of afflu?

English

Etymology

From French embourgeoisement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mb????wazm??/ (or as French, below)

Noun

embourgeoisement (uncountable)

1. The process of adopting or the condition of adopting the characteristics of the bourgeoisie; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
2. The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism.
3. A shift to bourgeois values and practices.
   • 1972: American Sociological Association, Contemporary Sociology, pp44

     Yet, in a fashion similar to the “Affluent Worker”, MacKenzie constructs a theory of embourgeoisement that is far too narrow historically and consequently, sociologically unsatisfactory.

   • 1983: Russell Duncan Lansbury & Robert Spillane, Organisational Behaviour: The Australian Context, pp140:

     Goldthorpe’s arguments and the ‘embourgeoisement thesis’ have spawned many research studies. Russell Lansbury investigated differences blue- and white-collar workers in social outlook.

   • 1994, Marina Warner, "Magic zones", London Review of Books, XVI.23:

     It’s significant that Pasolini turned to the Orient to conjure his rather forced vision of primitive sanity, and that he expressed his resistance to Western embourgeoisement through a honeyed, lyrical and comic picture of nomad culture and its pursuit of joyous, uncomplicated, promiscuous contact.

   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin 2004, p. 282:

     The upstart genre of the novel also marks a decisive embourgeoisement and feminization of culture.

   • 2007: Lesley Thomas, The Observer: Before you sneer at Fergie…, Sunday the 30^th of September

     We mould our children stealthily, force-feeding them allegorical Japanese films from Studio Gibley when they may prefer Shrek; packing them off to toddler yoga when they’d like to be at ballet reinforcing gender stereotypes. As for academic aspirations, check out any ‘up-and-coming’ area of London and witness the parents responsible for the local embourgeoisement elbowing their way into the best state schools.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:embourgeoisement.

Synonyms

• bourgeoisification
• gentrification

Antonyms

• proletarianization

Translations

See also

• upwardly mobile
• upward mobility
• gentrification

Further reading

• embourgeoisement thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

embourgeoiser +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bu?.?waz.m??/

Noun

embourgeoisement m (plural embourgeoisements)

1. bourgeoisification; embourgeoisement
2. gentrification

Further reading

• “embourgeoisement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).