#171: oniomania

11/27/2015

Black Friday promotes
wild oniomania
that oft knows no bounds

"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
— Ben Nicholson
"We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
— Aloe Blacc
"Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa — it stops us from thinking in general."
— Pink
"My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry."
— Bill Bryson

DEFINITION of this 6-syllable noun:

an uncontrollable desire to buy things.

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#171: oniomania

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