maximism

Noun

maximism (uncountable)

1. A tendency toward excess and extravagance.
   • After the minimalism of the past, fashion is witnessing a peaking of maximism.2005, Kanika Gahlaut, India Today - Volume 30, page 66
   • If boondockers want minimalism, glampers want maximism.2021, Christopher Hodapp, Alice Von Kannon, RVs & Campers For Dummies, page 16
2. 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.1906, William Shakespeare, John Macmillan Brown, The Merchant of Venice: A Study, page 54
   • Larin's radicalism in particular, and the era's maximism in general, demanded that the old bourgeois be removed from industry entirely.1945, Simon Isaevich Liberman, Building Lenin's Russia, page 26
3. A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.
   • 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.1872, Henry Thomas Braithwaite, Esse and posse, page 56
   • […] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.1912, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 72, page 70