Maximism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tendency toward excess and extravagance. uncountable

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

  2. 2
    The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism. uncountable

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

  3. 3
    A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible. uncountable

    "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."

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