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Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1992

  Définition

  A psychiatric disorder affecting wealthy people and involving feelings of malaise, lack of motivation, guilt, etc.

  Note :

  Formed by telescoping affluence and influenza to make a blend. The term was popularized in the mid eighties by Californian psychiatrist John Levy, after he had conducted a study of children who grow up expecting never to need to earn a living for themselves because of inheriting large sums of money. The name "affluenza" had apparently been suggested by one of the patients. By the end of the eighties, the term had started to catch on and was being applied more generally to the guilt feelings of people who suspected that they earned or possessed more than they were worth.

  Terme :

  1. affluenza