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consumerist

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Etymology

From consumer + -ist.

Adjective

consumerist (comparative more consumerist, superlative most consumerist)

  1. Of or pertaining to consumerism; consumeristic.
    consumerist society
    • 2011, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, page 125:
      In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.

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Noun

consumerist (plural consumerists)

  1. A proponent of consumerism.

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