classicism Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
    classicalism.
    • classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans

WordNet


Clas"si*cism noun
Definitions
  1. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

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