'Classicism' definitions:

Definition of 'classicism'

From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: classicism, classicalism] [ant: Romantic Movement, Romanticism]

Definition of 'Classicism'

From: GCIDE
  • Classicism \Clas"si*cism\, n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]