I would no longer call this maximalism, but obsession.
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Maximalism
Synonyms for "maximalism"
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11 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- maximalisme noun (tendency toward excess)
Esperanto
1 entries- maksimumismo noun (tendency toward excess)
French
1 entries- maximalisme noun (tendency toward excess)
German
1 entries- Maximalismus noun (tendency toward excess)
Greek
1 entries- μαξιμαλισμός noun (tendency toward excess)
Italian
1 entries- massimalismo noun (tendency toward excess)
Portuguese
1 entries- maximalismo noun (tendency toward excess)
Russian
1 entries- максимали́зм noun (tendency toward excess)
Spanish
1 entries- maximalismo noun (tendency toward excess)
Ukrainian
1 entries- максималі́зм noun (tendency toward excess)
Yiddish
1 entries- מאַקסימאַליזם noun (tendency toward excess)
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With its romantic harmonies out of Berlioz, the 4½-hour “Einstein” score marked a passage out of Minimalism into a new genre that John Rockwell dubbed “Maximalism.”
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The design trend known as maximalism has arrived in the workplace.
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Though it proclaims itself to be unaffected by economic thought, it is in fact deeply influenced by the “more rights equals more innovation” ideology of maximalism that I have described in these pages.
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