Definition of "maximalism" []

• The opposite of minimalism: a tendency toward excess (noun)

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• "The crazy thing about the push toward global harmonization and IP maximalism is that it doesn't make economic sense."
• "Charles Wuorinen is directing the festival, and listeners who are stuck in the musical politics of the relatively recent past or who think that Mr. Wuorinen's music lies on the severe, atonal side, might assume that this year's festival would tilt toward what Milton Babbitt semijokingly called maximalism."
• "My movement is called "maximalism," and it is a leaderless army of the millions of people who work for somebody else."