Expansivist

Quick meaning: Expansivist is an adjective meaning Tending toward maximizing the applicability or scope (of something).

Meaning

Tending toward maximizing the applicability or scope (of something).

More Meanings

1. One with an expansivist attitude toward or definition of something.

Example Sentences

First, this expansivist view would make public health limitless in scope.

In the extreme, expansivists assert that we should stop talking of “discovering truth” altogether.

Tracing their twentieth century origins back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, expansivists were energized by FDR's leadership.

This expansivist view is presidency-weighted, regarding the maximization of presidential power as virtually the sine qua non of American politics.

Word Forms

• expansivists

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