Meaning

A tendency toward excess and extravagance..

Definitions by Sense

1. A tendency toward excess and extravagance.
2. The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism.
3. (theology) A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.

Example Sentences

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

If boondockers want minimalism, glampers want maximism.

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.

Jabotinsky's Revisionist ideology had three main ideas: hadar (dignity and pride), monism, and territorial maximism.

Amongst the implications we identify the following: management and leadership; arbitration and advocacy; entitlement and surveillance; bureaucratic maximism and minimalism.

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.

When Should You Use Maximism?

Use maximism when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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