AFFLUENZA

PRONUNCIATION: (af-loo-EN-zuh)

MEANING: noun: A feeling of malaise accompanied by lack of motivation, dissatisfaction, feelings of guilt, especially among wealthy young people.

ETYMOLOGY: A blend of affluence + influenza. Both words are from Latin fluere (to flow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhleu- (to swell or overflow), from which flow words such as influence, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, fluoride, flush, flux, reflux, superfluous, fluvial, and profluent. Earliest documented use: 1973.

USAGE: �When Ethan Couch was 16, he was spared prison after killing four people in a drink-driving accident because a judge found that he suffered from affluenza ...
�Couch�s blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit and there were traces of Valium and marijuana in his system when he took seven friends for a high-speed ride in his pick-up truck on June 15, 2013. He ploughed into a broken-down car at over 70 mph, killing four people who were working on it. Two of his friends were critically injured and one was left paralysed. ...
�Couch�s defence hinged on a psychologist�s evidence that the boy could not understand the consequences of his actions because he had been raised by �profoundly dysfunctional� millionaire parents who encouraged his bad behaviour. �Instead of the golden rule, which was -- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you -- he was taught �We have the gold, we make the rules,� Dick Miller [a psychologist hired by the defense] testified.�
Ben Hoyle; Boy Who was Too Rich for Jail Goes on the Run; The Times (London, UK); Dec 18, 2015.

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ARFLUENZA - my dog is sick, I can tell just from hearing him bark

WAFFLUENZA - a pathological inability to make up one's mind

AFFLUENNA - the chaperone is very well-heeled...