lifestylism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The appropriation of something as a lifestyle, without regard to its underlying tenets or meaning.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "At the heart of the SL's [Spartacist League] attitude is as simple but insidious notion: lesbians and gay men should not bother fighting for their own liberation because that is "lifestylism"; rather, we should become closeted members of a straight-dominated sect and hope we are not forgotten after the revolution."
- "We went beyond squatting as lifestylism firstly by barricading our squats; secondly by taking over the street itself[…]"
- "In the cult of commodified lifestylism, even religion has become one more box on the shelf—promising a personal benefit along with conditioning shampoo, long-lasting antiperspirant, breath-sweetening toothpaste[…]"
- "Instead, many fall victim to illusions of reformism, bourgeois democracy, technotopianism, lifestylism, and other bogus schemes."
- "For if anarchism is just revolutionary workerism, then it loses its historical character as a libertarian critique or interpretation of socialism; yet if anarchism leaves its socialist roots completely in the past[…]then it arguably becomes something else, perhaps the supposedly aimless lifestylism derided famously by Murray Bookchin."