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Boomerism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Boomerism is a noun meaning An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.

Meaning

An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.

More Meanings

  1. The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
  2. (historical, US) A 19th century movement which campaigned for the extension of the American frontier.

Example Sentences

Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.
The hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.
Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers.
А camp of techno-optimists rebuffs A.I. doomerism with old-fashioned libertarian boomerism, insisting that all the hand-wringing about existential risk is a kind of mass hysteria.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boomer, hypercapitalism, producerism, procapitalist, poptimist, investorism.

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