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minimalist
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a person advocating a minimal policy, style, technique, action, etc
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Minimalist
noun (in early 20th-century Russia)
a member of the faction of the Social Revolutionaries that advocated immediate postrevolutionary democracy

Content: Art forms labeled minimalist typically use the simplest and fewest elements with the goal of creating the maximum effect. The term minimalism can also be used in a more general way to refer to a mi n imalist style or approach. The related adjective minimalistic is used to describe something that is stripped down to its most essential elements or uses only what is needed. Both minimalist and minimalistic can be used to describe things that are simplified and include only the most basic components, without embellishment. Example: Jane says she’s a minimalist when it comes to interior design, but to me it just looks like her house is missing a lot of furniture. Where does minimalist come from? The first records of the word minimalist in English come from the early 1900s. Minimalist and its related forms are all built on the adjective minimal, which means “least possible.” Minimal is ultimately derived from the Latin minimus, meaning “smallest.”