consumeristic
Driven by purchasing
Consumeristic describes attitudes or behaviors focused on acquiring consumer goods, often with the implication of excess or superficiality.
A consumeristic society prioritizes buying and owning things.
A consumeristic mindset equates happiness with purchases.
The word typically carries a critical edge, suggesting that consumption has become an end in itself rather than a means to genuine satisfaction.
Paid promotional communication
- marketingPromoting goods to consumers
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- retailSales to end users
- merchandisingPromoting and selling goods
sales · promotion · sponsorship · endorsement · billboard · infomercial · jingle · catalog
Prioritizing goods over spirit
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- fast-fashionCheap, trend-driven apparel industry
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
Goods obtained for payment
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- debtMoney owed another
- budgetPlan for spending
payment · checkout · expenditure · splurge · shopaholic · affordability · price · cost
Things one owns
- goodsThings for sale
- ownershipLegal right of possession
- hoardingExcessive accumulation of goods
- collectingGathering items over time
gadgets · electronics · appliances · furnishings · clothing · accessories · clutter · excess
advertising
Paid promotional communication
merchandising · sales · promotion · sponsorship · endorsement · billboard · infomercial · jingle · catalog · wholesale
materialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- fast-fashionCheap, trend-driven apparel industry
purchase
Goods obtained for payment
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- debtMoney owed another
budget · payment · checkout · expenditure · splurge · shopaholic · affordability · price · cost · installment
possessions
Things one owns
collecting · gadgets · electronics · appliances · furnishings · clothing · accessories · clutter · excess · stockpiling
consumeristicminimalist
One favoring bare essentials
ascetic · frugal · anti-consumerist · abstemious · thrifty
consumeristicspiritual
Relating to the soul
experiential · back-to-basics · self-sufficient · contemplative · monastic
consumeristicsustainable
Able to endure long-term
conservationist · eco-conscious · zero-waste · degrowth · green