English Explanatory Dictionary

classicism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. All the classical traditions of the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, especially the aspects of simplicity, elegance and proportion.
  2. Classical scholarship.
  3. A Latin or Ancient Greek expression used in an English sentence.

Word forms

classicism classicisms

Etymology

From classic + -ism.

Derived words

pseudoclassicism
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