Definition of classicism

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Definition of classicism

  • a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms (noun)

    Examples

    1. classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans

    Synonyms

    1. classicalism

See definition of classicism in Merriam Webster