Definition of Maximation

1. Noun. The act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position.

Exact synonyms: Maximisation, Maximization
Generic synonyms: Increase, Step-up
Derivative terms: Maximise, Maximize
Antonyms: Minimization

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maximation

maximal voluntary ventilation
maximalism
maximalisms
maximalist
maximalists
maximalities
maximality
maximalize
maximalized
maximalizes
maximalizing
maximally
maximals
maximand
maximands
maximation (current term)
maximax
maximin
maximined
maximining
maximinned
maximinning
maximins
maximisable
maximisation
maximisations
maximise
maximised
maximiser
maximisers

Literary usage of Maximation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic by Alfred Adler (1917)
"In the case of the neurosis he exaggerates and combats the real obstacles to the maximation of his ego-consciousness or seeks to avoid them by the ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"... pressure of his own guiding fiction, striving toward the maximation of his ego-consciousness. With women poets, Poe was seldom, almost never, critical. ..."

3. The Mental Hygiene of Childhood by William Alanson White (1919)
"This instinct for domination, the instinct that leads each individual to try to attain the maximation of his ego, to try to control his environment, ..."

4. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1922)
"... maximation; (d) through unfavorable comparison with others in the family circle. The Mechanism of Compensation. In this situation of pressure and unrest ..."

5. Education from a National Standpoint by Alfred Fouillée, William John Greenstreet (1892)
"... maximation is manifest, because a maxim is a generalization which satisfies the thought.* If, then, there is a break in the circle of ideas at any ..."

6. Foundations of Psychiatry by William Alanson White (1911)
"The attempt to attain to the maximation of the ego fails because directed along a false path. The neurosis or psychosis is therefore a constructive creation ..."

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