A psychological ailment, often inherited, that causes the person affected to feel entitled to preferential treatment and/or immunity from the consequences of their actions .
Example: The Wall Street executive got his car towed after parking in a handicapped space. He sued the city stating that he should be allowed to park there. A blogger noted sarcastic agreement, stating that the executive was clearly disabled suffering from crippling affluensa.
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Get the Affluensa mug.A legal defense to avoid the consequences of one's own actions. Some one who suffers from affluenza believes wealth allows them to get away with anything.
He suffered from affluenza, excessive affluence that made him think he could pay for any problem to go away.
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You know i wish i was ethan couch....plead "affluenza" and get away with underage drinking and say i don't know any better
by koshe December 13, 2013
Get the Affluenza mug.A legal defense by rich kids and or adults who are guilty of a crime for which they committed and freely admit. The defence is that the offspring of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits on their childrens behavior, are exempt from regular laws because natural law allows for special privilege and greater understanding for the rich and powerful in general. This argument comes from a branch of philosophy called circular logic. If the defense works it also means that instead of applying legal limits on rich people's behavior it legally exempts them and only them. This strengthens the defense in further legal problems should they occur again.
The affluenza defense works a lot better than a similar defense works for the offspring or poor, impoverished and suppressed parents, who don't have the resources to feed, cloth or house their kids properly, and because of time and resource constraints are unable keep tract or to set limits on their childrens behavior.
by mlhiss May 15, 2014
Get the affluenza mug.Affluence trap is where successful couples and families have all the material trappings of wealth but are now committed to large regular payments and have to work extremely hard and are therefore "trapped" in their jobs.
John and Irene had worked hard to become successful but now found themselves with lots of commitments and in the "affluence trap"
by AffluentAndrew May 2, 2009
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by Junos May 16, 2008
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What are all the affluent people not serving in Vietnam? Because they are suffering from Affluent Bone Spur Syndrome deffermemt defirmemt
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