"affluenzic" meaning in All languages combined

See affluenzic on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /æ.fluˈɛn.zɪk/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Forms: more affluenzic [comparative], most affluenzic [superlative]
Etymology: From affluenza + -ic. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|affluenza|ic}} affluenza + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} affluenzic (comparative more affluenzic, superlative most affluenzic)
  1. Of or pertaining to affluenza. Related terms: affluenza
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "affluenza",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "affluenza + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From affluenza + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more affluenzic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most affluenzic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "affluenzic (comparative more affluenzic, superlative most affluenzic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "af‧flu‧en‧zic"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ic",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andrew Brennan, Y. S. Lo, “Beyond Individual Responsibility: Governance and the Affluenzic Society”, in Understanding Environmental Philosophy (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought), Durham: Acumen, →ISBN, page 189:",
          "text": "The affluenzic society manages to commodify experiences that were previously some of life's freest and most shareable goods. This atrophy of higher human capacities is one of the great harms of the affluenzic society, which provides a host of gadgets and commodities on which to focus consumer desires and hopes that are inflated and deranged by intense marketing and advertising.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Kim Humphery, Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West, Cambridge, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The environmental analysts Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent write of high consumption being driven in the West – and on a global level – by a 'Coke and McDonalds^([sic]) culture', and they invoke the affluenzic impact of emulation and the key role of advertising.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Brennan, Y. P. Lo, “Two Global Crises, Ethics Renewal, and Governance Reform”, in Ved P. Nanda, editor, Climate Change and Environmental Ethics, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 137:",
          "text": "[U]nless the affluenzic system finds ways of limiting its own expansion, then the system will become self-destructive, and whatever good it has brought to the stakeholders will be lost. If nation-states and multinational corporations care for their own future existence, then they have a profound interest in ensuring that the affluenzic system in which they have been thriving does not end up destroying itself and everyone in it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to affluenza."
      ],
      "id": "en-affluenzic-en-adj-sMdRytGd",
      "links": [
        [
          "affluenza",
          "affluenza"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "affluenza"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/æ.fluˈɛn.zɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "affluenzic"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "affluenza",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "affluenza + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From affluenza + -ic.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more affluenzic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most affluenzic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "affluenzic (comparative more affluenzic, superlative most affluenzic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "af‧flu‧en‧zic"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "affluenza"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ic",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Andrew Brennan, Y. S. Lo, “Beyond Individual Responsibility: Governance and the Affluenzic Society”, in Understanding Environmental Philosophy (Understanding Movements in Modern Thought), Durham: Acumen, →ISBN, page 189:",
          "text": "The affluenzic society manages to commodify experiences that were previously some of life's freest and most shareable goods. This atrophy of higher human capacities is one of the great harms of the affluenzic society, which provides a host of gadgets and commodities on which to focus consumer desires and hopes that are inflated and deranged by intense marketing and advertising.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Kim Humphery, Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West, Cambridge, Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The environmental analysts Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent write of high consumption being driven in the West – and on a global level – by a 'Coke and McDonalds^([sic]) culture', and they invoke the affluenzic impact of emulation and the key role of advertising.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Andrew Brennan, Y. P. Lo, “Two Global Crises, Ethics Renewal, and Governance Reform”, in Ved P. Nanda, editor, Climate Change and Environmental Ethics, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 137:",
          "text": "[U]nless the affluenzic system finds ways of limiting its own expansion, then the system will become self-destructive, and whatever good it has brought to the stakeholders will be lost. If nation-states and multinational corporations care for their own future existence, then they have a profound interest in ensuring that the affluenzic system in which they have been thriving does not end up destroying itself and everyone in it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to affluenza."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "affluenza",
          "affluenza"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/æ.fluˈɛn.zɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "affluenzic"
}

Download raw JSONL data for affluenzic meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.