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say it: kuhn-SOO-mur-iz-uhm
consumerism is a noun meaning "the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for consumerism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.