Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun classicalism

1 sense of classicalism

Sense 1
classicism, classicalism -- (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")
       => humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts -- (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences")
       => artistic style, idiom -- (the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom")