expansivist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tending toward maximizing the applicability or scope (of something)

   • This expansivist view is presidency-weighted, regarding the maximization of presidential power as virtually the sine qua non of American politics.
   • First, this expansivist view would make public health limitless in scope.
2. 2

   One with an expansivist attitude toward or definition of something.

   • Tracing their twentieth century origins back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, expansivists were energized by FDR's leadership.
   • Widely labelled a genocide by politicians, journalists, and some genocide studies scholars, the judgment of these expansivists is called into question because Kosovar Albanians were in the main expelled from Serbia rather than liquidated.
   • In the extreme, expansivists assert that we should stop talking of “discovering truth” altogether.

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