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Minimalist vs Transcendentalist - What's the difference?

minimalist | transcendentalist |

As nouns the difference between minimalist and transcendentalist

is that minimalist is minimalist while transcendentalist is one who believes in transcendentalism.

minimalist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
  • I am sure such a minimalist style of furniture would never fit well with my packrat nature.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
  • He's a minimalist : when it comes to formal processes, the fewer the better.

    transcendentalist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who believes in transcendentalism.
  • A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
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