classicism n 1: 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}]
Classicism \Clas"si*cism\, n. A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]