Noun
- 1. classicism, classicalism, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts, artistic style, idiom
- usage: 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"
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