Commercialism vs. Spirit
Commercialismnoun
The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
Commercialismnoun
A tendency to value profit over everything else.
Commercialismnoun
The commercial spirit or method.
Commercialismnoun
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
Commercialism
Commercialism is the application of both manufacturing and consumption towards personal usage, or the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of free enterprise geared toward generating profit. Commercialism can also be used in a negative connotation to refer to the possibility within open-market capitalism to exploit objects, people, or the environment for private gain for the purpose of generating profit.
Spiritnoun
The soul of a person or other creature.
Spiritnoun
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
Spiritnoun
Enthusiasm.
Spiritnoun
The manner or style of something.
Spiritnoun
A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
Spiritnoun
Energy; ardour.
Spiritnoun
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
Spiritnoun
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
Spiritnoun
(obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Spiritnoun
(obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
Spiritnoun
Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
Spiritnoun
Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
Spiritnoun
(dyeing) stannic chloride
Spiritverb
To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
Spiritverb
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.
Spiritnoun
Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
Spiritnoun
A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
Spiritnoun
Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
Spiritnoun
The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
Spiritnoun
Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
Spiritnoun
Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
Spiritnoun
Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
Spiritnoun
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
Spiritnoun
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; - often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
Spiritnoun
Intent; real meaning; - opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
Spiritnoun
Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
Spiritnoun
Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): - often in the plural.
Spiritnoun
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
Spiritnoun
A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
Spiritnoun
Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
Spiritnoun
Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
Spiritverb
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; - sometimes followed by up.
Spiritverb
To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; - often with away, or off.
Spiritnoun
the vital principle or animating force within living things
Spiritnoun
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;
Spiritnoun
a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character
Spiritnoun
any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
Spiritnoun
the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection);
Spiritnoun
the intended meaning of a communication
Spiritnoun
animation and energy in action or expression;
Spiritnoun
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind;
Spiritverb
infuse with spirit;
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person regarded as their true self and as capable of surviving physical death or separation
Spiritnoun
the non-physical part of a person manifested as an apparition after their death; a ghost
Spiritnoun
a supernatural being
Spiritnoun
short for Holy Spirit
Spiritnoun
the prevailing or typical quality, mood, or attitude of a person, group, or period of time
Spiritnoun
a person identified with their most prominent quality or with their role in a group or movement
Spiritnoun
a person's mood or attitude
Spiritnoun
the quality of courage, energy, and determination
Spiritnoun
the real meaning or the intention behind something as opposed to its strict verbal interpretation
Spiritnoun
strong distilled alcoholic drink such as brandy, whisky, gin, or rum.
Spiritnoun
a volatile liquid, especially a fuel, prepared by distillation
Spiritnoun
a solution of volatile components extracted from something, typically by distillation or by solution in alcohol
Spiritnoun
a highly refined substance or fluid thought to govern vital phenomena.
Spiritverb
convey rapidly and secretly
