Classicism Definition

klăsĭ-sĭzəm
noun
The aesthetic principles or qualities regarded as characteristic of ancient Greece and Rome; objectivity, formality, balance, simplicity, restraint, etc.
Webster's New World
Adherence to such principles.
Webster's New World
Knowledge of the literature, art, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome; classical scholarship.
Webster's New World
Classical scholarship.
American Heritage
A Greek or Latin idiom or expression.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
classicism
Plural:
classicisms

Classicism Sentence Examples

  • His classicism led to his great limitations as an historian.

  • Classicism in the shape of solid, respectable Hummel on the one hand, and Carl Czerny, a trifle flippant, perhaps, and inclined to appeal to the gallery, on the other, these gave the musical parentage of young Liszt.

  • It also escaped the classicism of the Renaissance with its insistence upon the test - either fact or fiction.

  • In his beloved Italy his etchings are suffused with a classicism that nonetheless appeals to a contemporary aesthetic.

  • I was surprised to the extent which Baldwin, known mainly for contemporary dance, had embraced classicism - both steps and tutus.

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