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名詞

maximism (uncountable)

1. A tendency toward excess and extravagance.
   • 2005, Kanika Gahlaut, India Today - Volume 30, page 66:

     After the minimalism of the past, fashion is witnessing a peaking of maximism.

   • 2021, Christopher Hodapp, Alice Von Kannon, RVs & Campers For Dummies, page 16:

     If boondockers want minimalism, glampers want maximism.

2. The tendency to maximize the application of a particular approach or to strive for maximum acquisition of a particular resource; extremism.
   • 1906, William Shakespeare, John Macmillan Brown, The Merchant of Venice: A Study, page 54:

     It goes with fondness for moralising over life– an ethical maximism that belongs to the age.

   • 1945, Simon Isaevich Liberman, Building Lenin's Russia, page 26:

     Larin's radicalism in particular, and the era's maximism in general, demanded that the old bourgeois be removed from industry entirely.

   • 1970, The Critic - Volume 29, page 67:

     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.

   • 2013, Thomas G. Mitchell, Israel/Palestine and the Politics of a Two-State Solution, page 29:

     Jabotinsky's Revisionist ideology had three main ideas: hadar (dignity and pride), monism, and territorial maximism.

   • 2021, Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs, page 166:

     Amongst the implications we identify the following: management and leadership; arbitration and advocacy; entitlement and surveillance; bureaucratic maximism and minimalism.

3. (theology) A belief that religious observances should be applied as widely as possible.
   • 1872, Henry Thomas Braithwaite, Esse and posse, page 56:

     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.

   • 1912, The Nineteenth Century and After, volume 72, page 70:

     […] theologians were puzzled by Newman's apparent combination of liberalism and ultramontanism, of maximism and minimism.

   • 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

     […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

   • 1966, Cistercian Studies - Volume 24, page 179:

     The monks' practice of "eschatological maximism” did not make them a group apart from the rest of the Church.