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Improper word usage can be tricky to solve. It's easy to see this and think to use essentialism in places where minimalism is more appropriate. When that happens en masse, words blend together and lose meaning. It doesn't help that essentialism is much more rarely in someone's vocabulary, which lends to poor explanations or implications of definitions. Language is hard.

I see your point, but minimalism defined as "down to essentials/minimum alone" can still work. On the other hand, essentialism emphasises that meaning. As it is with language, the need for a re-definition comes from the loss of the previous one, or something, so how did you define "minimalism" such that you found "essentialism" a better term for what you're thinking?