Conspicuous Consumption Definition

noun
Showy extravagance in buying or using goods or services, meant to impress others with one's wealth, status, etc.
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Origin of Conspicuous Consumption

  • Coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) in 1899.

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Conspicuous Consumption Sentence Examples

  • There was conspicuous consumption under the early emperors.

  • High culture is for them a form of conspicuous consumption.

  • The royal families have rubbed salt in their middle classes resentment by engaging in excesses of conspicuous consumption.

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