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Not how much you have — how little you need to feel finished.
means The quality of being full, abundant, or deeply satisfying — whether in flavor, texture, resources, or experience.
from From 'rich,' tracing back to Old English 'rice' meaning powerful or wealthy, itself from a Germanic root tied to kingship and rule — the same ancestor gave Old High German 'rihhi' and is a cousin of the Latin-derived 'regal.' The suffix '-ness' simply turns the quality into a noun. So buried in 'richness' is an old echo of royalty: to be rich once meant something closer to being mighty than merely having money.
- etymology
- from rich, meaning powerful, not wealthy
- flavor sense
- fat plus salt tricks tongue into richness
- paradox
- the richest often chase more, not less
- economics term
- measured by options, not objects owned