Consumption vs. Consumerism

The act or process of consuming.

The movement seeking to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards.

The state of being consumed.

The theory that a progressively greater consumption of goods is economically beneficial.

An amount consumed.

Attachment to materialistic values or possessions

(Economics) The using up of goods and services by consumer purchasing or in the production of other goods.

A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc

A progressive wasting of body tissue.

A materialistic attachment to possessions.

Pulmonary tuberculosis. No longer in scientific use.

An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.

The act of eating, drinking or using.

The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial

The amount consumed.

A movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers

The act of consuming or destroying.

(pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.

Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

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.

The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing;

The act of consuming something