Noun: consumerism
| Singular | consumerism |
| Plural | consumerisms |
Sample Sentences
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The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists. [1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:]
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Insatiable consumerism has blinkered our vision and left us unable to distinguish between what we need and what we merely want. [2015 June 28, Paul Vallely, “The Pope's Ecological Vow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:]
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It’s easy to say, as I often do, that it’s capitalism at work. Yet I am actively involved in consumerism, triggered by my insecurities. [2024 August 8, Angela Garbes, “Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2024:]
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“It’s where cultural identity and cheap viral consumerism intersect,” D. Andrew Price, head of content at Memes Media Group, said of how Mr. Kirk’s T-shirt has proliferated in recent days. [2025 September 14, Alexander Nazaryan, quoting D. Andrew Price, “‘Freedom’ Shirt Becomes a Meme and an Instant Commodity”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2025:]
Nouns inflected like consumerism
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *upó
8. Proto-Italic *supo
9. Latin sub
10. Latin sub-
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
13. Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti
14. Proto-Italic *emō
15. Latin emō
16. Latin sūmō
17. Latin cōnsūmōder.
18. Old French consumerbor.
19. Middle English consumen
20. English consume
21. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
22. Proto-Italic *-āzios
23. Latin -āriusnom.
24. Latin -āriusbor.
25. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
26. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
27. Old English -ere
28. Middle English -ere
29. English -er
30. English consumer
31. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
32. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
33. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
34. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
35. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
36. Proto-Indo-European *-mos
37. Proto-Indo-European *-mós
38. Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
39. Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
40. English -ism
41. English consumerism
42. From consumer + -ism.
Verbs referencing "consumerism"
French Nouns
consumérisme, Finnish Nouns
konsumerismi.