Difference between Affluence and Richness

What is the difference between Affluence and Richness?

Affluence as a noun is a large amount of wealth. while Richness as a noun is the state or quality of being rich.

Affluence

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a large amount of wealth.

Example sentence: What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.

Richness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state or quality of being rich.The number of types in a community.The result or product of being rich.

Example sentence: When we first sent missions to Jupiter, no one expected to find moons that would have active volcanoes. And I could go down a long list of how often I've been surprised by the richness of nature.

We hope you now know whether to use Affluence or Richness in your sentence.

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