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What does affluenza mean?

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Noun
  1. A feeling of dissatisfaction, anxiety, etc., caused by the dogged and ongoing pursuit of more goods and possessions.
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The consumptive nature of a beauty-identity has been famously depicted in the popular PBS documentary Affluenza.
Psoriasis is commonly related to metabolic syndrome, also known as affluenza.
His concern in these unflattering portraits is not just to critique affluenza, but to assert an alternative to ruling-class cosmology.
Can we now expect a series of similar affluenza pleas in defence of anti-social behaviour?
Affluenza is not found in our diagnostic categories of mental illness and it is not even a construct that makes sense.
There are many exceptions to the rule, but a fear of affluenza has prompted some wealthy parents to disinherit their children for magnanimous reasons.

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