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Consumer vs Vidiot - What's the difference?

consumer | vidiot |

As nouns the difference between consumer and vidiot

is that consumer is one who, or that which, consumes while vidiot is (derogatory|informal) a passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.

consumer

English

(wikipedia consumer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, consumes.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • (economics) someone who trades money for goods as an individual.
    • This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
  • (biology) an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.

    • Derived terms

    * anticonsumer * consumerist * consumerism

    Antonyms

    * (economics) and (biology): producer

    See also

    biology * carnivore * decomposer * detritivore * first-order consumer * herbivore * omnivore * producer * scavenger * second-order consumer English agent nouns ----

    vidiot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (derogatory, informal) A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.
  • * 1989 , Mike Yaconelli, Scott Koenigsaecker, Get 'em talking: 104 great discussion starters for youth groups (page 118)
    • You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=March 4, author=Jack Helbig, title=Schoolhouse Rock Live!, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=July 28, author=Jack Helbig, title=Battery, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Featuring witty wordplay--Therriault could be David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley's long-lost love child raised in the wild by William Burroughs-- and a story and characters simple enough to be understood by your average vidiot play reader, Battery is just challenging enough to appeal to a young actor's ego but not so challenging as to scare her off. }}
  • * 2009 , Lori Sullivan, Overcoming Autism: A Parent's Guide (page 115)
    • We're raising a generation of vidiots , and it's going to be a problem when they get older.