Consumption vs. Consumerism

Consumption and Consumerism Definitions
Consumption
The act or process of consuming.
Consumerism
The movement seeking to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards.
Consumption
The state of being consumed.
Consumerism
The theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial.
Consumption
An amount consumed.
Consumerism
Attachment to materialistic values or possessions
Deplored the rampant consumerism of contemporary society.
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Consumption
(Economics) The using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.
Consumerism
A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc
Consumption
A progressive wasting of body tissue.
Consumerism
A materialistic attachment to possessions.
Consumption
Pulmonary tuberculosis. No longer in scientific use.
Consumerism
An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
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Consumption
The act of eating, drinking or using.
The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
Consumerism
The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial
Consumption
The amount consumed.
Gross national consumption
Consumerism
A movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers
Consumption
The act of consuming or destroying.
The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
Consumption
(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
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Consumption
Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
Consumption
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption.
Consumption
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
Consumption
A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; - called also pulmonary consumption.
Consumption
The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
Consumption
Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
Consumption
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing;
The consumption of energy has increased steadily
Consumption
The act of consuming something