commercialism.

A strong emphasis on selling and profit, especially when it displaces other values.

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Words that belong together

• rampant commercialism
• reject commercialism

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The festival's commercialism troubled artists who had founded it as a community project.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.