Associations to the word «Classicism»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

CLASSICISM, 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".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley