Posted by pakguru on April 10th, 2016 | 0 comments | advertising, consumerism, EAP, IELTS, konsumtif, Part 3, Skidelsky, speaking, Task 2, vocabulary, writing
Advertising tends to make people more consumptive.
Once upon a time consumption meant ‘wasting away’, but in the context of tuberculosis, not shopping. Of course these days consumption is still a kind of wasting, but not as life-threatening!
The modern habit of wasting money on wants rather than needs is consumerism:
Compare: consumptive and consumeristic.
Leave a Reply