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conspicuous consumption
noun
(conspicuous consumption)
lavish or wasteful spending thought to enhance social prestige
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consumerism
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extravagance
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ostentatious
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affluence
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materialism
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ostentation
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opulence
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gluttony
,
hedonism
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decadence
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commercialism
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overindulgence
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extravagant
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frugality
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acquisitiveness
,
indulgence
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narcissism
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frivolity
,
avarice
,
greed
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elitism
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individualism
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debauchery
,
opulent
,
immorality
,
lavish
,
affluent
,
libertinism
,
nouveau riche
,
bling
,
foppery
,
luxuries
,
splurging
,
decadent
,
snobbery
,
gluttonous
,
overindulgent
,
dernier cri
,
sybarite
,
exorbitance
,
glitzy
,
dandyism
,
infra dig
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conformism
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fashionable
,
parvenu
,
asceticism
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gaucheness
,
tawdriness
,
huckstering
,
banality
,
miserliness
,
harlotry
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saturnalia
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exhibitionism
,
leisured
,
thriftiness
,
luxe
,
mcmansion
,
ritualism
,
voguish
,
chicness
,
indulgent
,
frippery
,
boastfulness
,
yuppie
,
fetishism
,
poshness
,
tackiness
,
puritanism
,
showiness
,
excesses
,
faddish
,
trappings
,
kitsch
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onanism
,
garishness
,
dolce vita
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prudery
,
drunken revelry
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hoggish
,
concupiscence
,
vices
,
wantonness
,
nouveau
,
legalism
,
vacuousness
,
piggishness
,
de rigueur
,
philistinism
,
bacchanalia
,
extravagancies
,
profligate
,
trendily
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cupidity
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moralizing
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sinful
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corpulence
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crassness
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hubris
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conspicuous consumption
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