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minimalist

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min·i·mal·ist

   [min-uh-muh-list]
–noun
1.
a person who favors a moderate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or who holds minimal expectations for the success of a program.
2.
a practitioner of minimalism in music or art.
–adjective
3.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of minimalism.
4.
being or offering no more than what is required or essential: a minimalist program for tax reform.
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Origin:
1905–10; in political use < F minimaliste (see minimal, -ist), trans. of Russ men'shevík Menshevik; subsequent uses perh. recoinage with minimal, -ist
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minimalist (ˈmɪnɪməlɪst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a person advocating a minimal policy, style, technique, action, etc
2.  a minimal artist
 
—adj
3.  of or relating to minimal art or artists

Minimalist (ˈmɪnɪməlɪst) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—n
1.  a member of the faction of the Social Revolutionaries that advocated immediate postrevolutionary democracy
2.  a less common name for a Menshevik

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minimalist
1907, originally an Anglicization of Menshevik; in sense of "practitioner of minimal art" it is first recorded 1967; the term minimal art is from 1965. See minimum. Related: Minimalistic; Minimalism.
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