googolplexian wealth
- noun
- /ˈɡuːɡəlˌplɛkʃən wɛlθ/
- Informal
- He joked that his lottery winnings would soon make him the owner of googolplexian wealth.
Examples
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She claimed, with a grin, that she was planning her retirement thanks to her googolplexian wealth.
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Stories often exaggerate with phrases like googolplexian wealth to describe a billionaire's riches.
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He claims to have googolplexian wealth from his investments.
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Could you imagine having googolplexian wealth?
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He joked that his lottery winnings would make him the owner of googolplexian wealth.
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She claimed that her business success would soon lead her to googolplexian wealth.
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Many movies humorously depict characters dreaming of googolplexian wealth.
Synonyms
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1.4
A large amount of money and valuable things
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1.9
A large amount of useful things or ideas that someone has
How Rich
Surface Forms
Morphology
googolplexian + wealth
The noun phrase is compositionally built from an adjective meaning 'of or like a googolplex' (i.e., astronomically large) plus 'wealth', so the overall sense 'hyperbolically enormous wealth' is derivable from the parts. However, 'googolplexian' is a rare/neologistic mathematical-derived adjective (no dictionary entry here) that B1 learners are unlikely to know or parse reliably, so the predictability is limited.
Etymology
Googolplexian wealth comes from the idea of the very large number words googol and googolplex, so imagine piles of money so huge they would need more zeros than anyone could write. So it's a playful way to say 'extremely rich'.