Meaning of possessionism | Babel Free

Definitions

The tendency to expand one's ownership of property without regard for its ethical implications.

uncountable

Examples

“The Pastorals are defending Pauline incarnational christology against Jewish Christian myths justifying possessionism”

“Possessionism in wreck diving regard can be characterized generally as the compulsive collection of artifacts”

“They're always viewed in relation to American suburbanism, possessionism, commodityism, or copism.”

“[…] racial theories and the unprecedented increase in colonial expansionism and territorial possessionism, as exemplified by Britain's “imperial century,” […]”

CEFR level