affluence, taffluency

[In Fr. affluence; Sp. afluenzia Port. affluencia; Ital. affluenza; Lat. affluent i a, fr. affluens = flowing to.] I. The state of flowing to. (Lit. and fig.) a perpetual affluency of animal spirits."Add is on: Spectator, No. 247. II. The act or series of acts of thronging to. "I shall not relate the affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain, after the voice of our prince being there had been noised."- Wotton : Reliq.; Life of Bucking ham . III. That which flows to (one). Specially : 1. Wealth of money, or other material property. a youth of misery was concluded with an old age of elegance, a fluence, and ease," Goldsmith: E ays, iii. 2. Wealth of emotion, intellect, or any other immaterial thing. "O precious hours! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time!" Long fellow: The Old Clock on the Stairs.