Maximalist Definition
măksə-mə-lĭst
maximalists
noun
A person who favors direct or revolutionary action to achieve a goal.
Webster's New World
A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess.
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adjective
(art) Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.
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Other Word Forms of Maximalist
Noun
Singular:
maximalist
Plural:
maximalistsOrigin of Maximalist
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Russian maksimalist name applied in 1906 to an extreme splinter group of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party ultimately from Latin maximum maximum maximum
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From maximal +"Ž -ist, by analogy with minimalist
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