Usually means: Embracing excess in style, expression.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. maximalist: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maximalist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maximalist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maximalist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Maximalist, maximalist: Wordnik
  6. maximalist: Wiktionary
  7. maximalist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maximalist: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. maximalist: Dictionary.com
  10. Maximalist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. maximalist: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. maximalist: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Maximalist)

adjective:  (art, music, literature) Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.
adjective:  (politics, diplomacy) Aggressive, expansive.
adjective:  (religion) Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.
adjective:  (historical, communism) Relating to far-left communism.
noun:  (art, literature, music) A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.
noun:  (politics) A supporter of an aggressive or expansive foreign policy.
noun:  (religion) A proponent of Biblical maximalism, one who affirms the historicity of central Biblical narratives.
noun:  (historical, communism, obsolete, capitalized) A Bolshevik.
noun:  (historical) A member of a radical wing split from the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party in 1906.
noun:  (historical) A member of a radical Marxist party in Italy.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of maximalist [(art, music, literature) Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of maximalist [(art, literature, music) A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.]

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