Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resourceism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-sour-ceism
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A human tendency to regard the natural environment as a set of resources to be exploited.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"David Suzuki would remind you that this is the language of "a planet for the taking," the terminology of "resourceism" in which all living things are viewed as raw materials for the service of mankind"
"Similarly, to describe someone as "greedy as a pig" or "a snake in the grass" is an animal insult, or "speciesism"; "natural resources" betray a sign of "resourceism," […]"
"One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses."

Etymology

From resource + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: resource

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does resourceism mean?: A human tendency to regard the natural environment as a set of resources to be exploited.
Where does resourceism come from?: From resource + -ism.

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