Antonym: romanticism. Similar words: classical music, classic, classics, classical, classically, neoclassic, neoclassical, classify. Meaning: ['klæsɪsɪzəm] 
n. a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms.
n. a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms. 
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31 The product's design inosculated continental neoclassicism, French and American country classicism, and also have idiosyncrasy of exalted, silk-stocking, gentler, decent, etc.
32 It is quiet and symmetrical that the whole divertimento has dramaticism but a magnum opus of a romanticism remains classicism throughout.
33 He chose instead a form of diluted Neo - Classicism with faintly absurd, occasionally even Surrealist overtones.
34 In the case of Neo- classicism in France, a prime example is Jacques Louis David whose paintings often use Greek elements to extoll the French Revolution's virtues (state before family).
35 As a consequence, classicism in painting was quickly taken the place of by romanticism.
36 His opera prefigure coming of romanticism in artistic song writing. Mozart let classicism and romanticism have a perfect integrating and endow with artistic song strong infection and life.
37 Andrew Marvell, a British poet in the seventeenth century, inherits romanticism tradition from the Elizabeth time and has opened the rational classicism of the 18th century.
More similar words: classical music, classic, classics, classical, classically, neoclassic, neoclassical, classify, reclassify, classified, scholasticism, unclassified, classified ad, classification, physicist, class, classy, a class, biophysicist, subclass, lyricism, stoicism, cynicism, briticism, mysticism, criticism, witticism, astrophysicist, classroom, classmate.