consumerism

Noun

Meaning

a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers

the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

business campaign trading selling greed materialism merchandising secularism commercialism industrialism capitalism worldliness acquisitiveness cornering competitive market
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Antonyms

rest communism anarchy inactivity idleness lethargy
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Hypernyms

cause movement campaign effort drive crusade

Related terms

conspicuous consumption consumerist consumerize consumerization anticonsumption

Phrases with the word

anti-consumerism

Examples

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. Christopher Lasch

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson

We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism. Mikhail Gorbachev

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. Christopher Lasch

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. Christopher Lasch

I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. Pierre Dukan

Close letter words and terms

consumer-grade consumerdom consumerish consumerist consumeristic consumeristically