| Pronunciation: | | 'klasi`sizum
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[n] a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans" |
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CLASSICISM is a 10 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Antonyms: | | romanticism |
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| | See Also: | | artistic style, arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, idiom, liberal arts, neoclassicism |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Clas"si*cism\, n.
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley.
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