CLASSICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does classicism mean? 

• CLASSICISM (noun)
  The noun CLASSICISM has 1 sense:

1. a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

  Familiarity information: CLASSICISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSICISM (noun)

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Meaning:

A movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

classicalism; classicism

Context example:

classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans

Hypernyms ("classicism" is a kind of...):

artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

Antonym:

Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)

Derivation:

classicist (an artistic person who adheres to classicism)

classicistic (of or relating to classicism)