maximism

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for…

   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.
   • There is much reason to believe that, even in the dogmas of immaculate conception and assumption, the Holy See has acted chiefly as a restraint on the "mariologial maximism" of the body of the faithful.
3. 3

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

   • […] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.
   • […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

The neighborhood

• neighbormaximist
• neighbormaximalism