maximism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism.
Uncountable
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."