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Money
(n.)
The condition when wealth becomes so vast, it stops being something a person has and instead becomes who they are.
Biographers of billionaires love to pinpoint the exact moment of excessence, usually somewhere between the first jet and the first island.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Excess folded into essence. Your essence is meant to be what’s left once the trappings are stripped away. Here, the excess becomes all there is. Said aloud, it echoes excrescence: an irregular outgrowth, like a wart; also used figuratively to mean something that’s grotesque.
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.