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To define wealth is difficult as the concept of wealth not only varies between societies, but often even varies between different sections or regions in the same society.

Wealth derives from the old English word “weal”. The term was originally an adjective to describe the possession of great qualities. To define wealth in one way: wealth is a measure of your ability to do what you would like to do, when you would like to do it - a measure of your breadth of immediately available choice.

One of the best ways to define wealth is  ‘cash flow from other sources‘. ‘Wealth’ refers to some accumulation of resources, whether abundant or not.

When you define wealth as ‘richness’, it refers to an abundance of such resources. A wealthy or rich individual, community, or nation thus has more resources than a poor one. Richness can also refer to the situation where at least basic needs are being met with abundance widely shared.

If you want to be wealthy, you must understand what wealth is. Here are other ways to define wealth:

• the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money; “great wealth is not a sign of great intelligence”
• the quality of profuse abundance; “she has a wealth of talent”
• an abundance of material possessions and resources
• property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value
• A commodity which, according to the rich, doesn’t bring happiness though according to the poor, it brings something quite closely resembling it.

Another way to define wealth, is to describe them - the rich people. Those possessing financial wealth; rich; Abundant in quality or quantity; profuse
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Encarta dictionary defines wealth as

• large amount of money: a large amount of money or possessions.
• state of having much money: the state of having plenty of money or possessions that came from a background of great wealth
• abundance of something: an abundance or great quantity of something e.g. a wealth of statistics to prove the point
• Economic value of assets: Value of assets owned by a person or a community

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines wealth as ‘a large amount of money or valuables possessions that someone has’

Definitions of Wealth from The Online Plain Text English Dictionary:

• In the private sense, all property which has a money value.
• In the public sense, all objects, especially material objects, which have economic utility.
• Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
• Those energies, faculties, and habits directly contributing to make people industrially efficient.
• Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.

The simplest way to define wealth is that it is any lasting asset that is valued by people. Strictly speaking it might include intangible things, but most often we think of wealth in terms of tangible assets like cars, houses, stocks, bonds,  or fine art.

It is important to note that the value of a thing is highly subjective and depends on who is doing the evaluation, for what purpose the valuation is being done, and when and where it is taking place.

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