maximalist

Meanings

1. Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.
2. Aggressive, expansive.
3. Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.
4. Relating to far-left communism.

1. A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.
2. A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.
3. A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.
4. A Bolshevik.
5. A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.
6. A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.

1. Alternative letter-case form of maximalist.

1. Alternative letter-case form of maximalist.

Etymology

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.