Usually means: Excessive use beyond sustainable needs.
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  1. overconsumption: Merriam-Webster
  2. overconsumption: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Overconsumption, overconsumption: Wordnik
  4. overconsumption: Wiktionary
  5. Overconsumption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. overconsumption: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. overconsumption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

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▸ noun:  Excessive consumption.

Similar:
over-consumption, hyperconsumption, overconsumer, overabsorption, overexploitation, overexpenditure, overusage, overaddiction, too-muchness, overexposure, more...

Opposite:
underconsumption, moderation, restraint, frugality

Types:
gluttony, greed, consumerism, excessive, extravagant, wasteful, more...

Adjectives:
passive, chronic, such, wasteful, american, massive, northern, gross, dietary, conspicuous, acute

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Similar:
over-consumption, hyperconsumption, overconsumer, overabsorption, overexploitation, overexpenditure, overusage, overaddiction, too-muchness, overexposure, more...

Opposite:
underconsumption, moderation, restraint, frugality

Types:
gluttony, greed, consumerism, excessive, extravagant, wasteful, more...

Adjectives:
passive, chronic, such, wasteful, american, massive, northern, gross, dietary, conspicuous, acute



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