maximalist vs minimalist

maximalist

noun
  • A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy. 

  • A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives. 

  • A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy. 

  • A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906. 

  • A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts. 

adj
  • Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less. 

  • Aggressive, expansive. 

  • Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism. 

  • Relating to far-left communism. 

minimalist

adj
  • Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum. 

noun
  • One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum. 

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