maximism

noun 3

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noun

1

A tendency toward excess and extravagance.

After the minimalism of the past, fashion is witnessing a peaking of maximism.

If boondockers want minimalism, glampers want maximism.

2

The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism.

It goes with fondness for moralising over life– an ethical maximism that belongs to the age.

Larin's radicalism in particular, and the era's maximism in general, demanded that the old bourgeois be removed from industry entirely.

3

A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.

As to minimism and maximism — microscopic and telescopic tendencies — the cosmical laws are themselves of such vast range that we should naturally expect the greatest embodiments to have occurred first, as in the case of a thousand Suns and Jupiters they manifestly did.

[…] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.

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