Definitions for classicisms

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classicisms clas·si·cism

Spelling: [klas-uh-siz-uh m]

IPA: /ˈklæs əˌsɪz əm/

Classicisms is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in classicisms (acciilmssss).

Definitions for classicisms

noun

1. the principles or styles characteristic of the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome.
2. adherence to such principles.
3. the classical style in literature and art, or adherence to its principles (contrasted with romanticism). Compare classical (def 7).
4. a Greek or Latin idiom or form, especially one used in some other language.
5. classical scholarship or learning.

Origin of classicisms

First recorded in 1820-30; classic + -ism

Examples for classicisms

The only point in question was, how to avoid the one-sidedness of classicism.

It represents the spirit of classicism cold and unsatisfying.

That Christian expression and classicism were incompatible, he never believed.

The revolt of the Romanticists against classicism in literature and art.

He received the highest eulogy known to the classicism of the time.

His “Decadence” was the work of a decadent, a decadent of classicism.

Nothing, for instance, was more romantic in Goethe than his classicism.

The grace of his pictures is modern; their classicism is a disguise.

It begins with some observations on Romanticism and classicism.

The spirit of classicism was in the air in the days of Wedgwood.