Materialistic vs Consumerism - What's the difference?
materialistic | consumerism |
Being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.
Of or concerning philosophical materialism.
* Charles Kingsley
A policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc
A materialistic attachment to possessions.
An economic theory that increased consumption is beneficial to a nation's economy in the long run.
As an adjective materialistic
is being overly concerned with material possessions and wealth.As a noun consumerism is
a policy of protecting and informing consumers through honesty in advertising and packaging, improved safety standards etc.materialistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.