Classicism Synonyms and Antonyms

klăsĭ-sĭzəm
The aesthetic principles or qualities regarded as characteristic of ancient Greece and Rome; objectivity, formality, balance, simplicity, restraint, etc.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. elegance
  2. classicalism
  3. aesthetic principles
  4. objectivity
  5. dignity
  6. balance
  7. refinement
  8. formality
  9. simplicity
  10. restraint
  11. neoclassicism
  12. pure taste
  13. harmony
  14. understatement
  15. nobility
  16. formal-style
  17. reverence for the ancients
  18. observance of classical principles
  19. lucidity
  20. classical taste
  21. the grand style
  22. conventional formality
  23. proportion
  24. propriety
  25. rhythm
  26. symmetry
  27. regularity
  28. majesty
  29. grandeur
  30. polish
  31. finish
  32. clarity
  33. rationalism
  34. eloquence
  35. atticism
  36. purity
  37. ciceronianism
  38. sobriety
  39. high-art
  40. sublimity
  41. excellence
  42. severity
  43. established forms
  44. well-turned periods
  45. hellenism
Antonyms:
  1. romanticism

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Classicism Sentence Examples

  • His classicism led to his great limitations as an historian.

  • Classicism in the shape of solid, respectable Hummel on the one hand, and Carl Czerny, a trifle flippant, perhaps, and inclined to appeal to the gallery, on the other, these gave the musical parentage of young Liszt.

  • It also escaped the classicism of the Renaissance with its insistence upon the test - either fact or fiction.

  • In his beloved Italy his etchings are suffused with a classicism that nonetheless appeals to a contemporary aesthetic.

  • I was surprised to the extent which Baldwin, known mainly for contemporary dance, had embraced classicism - both steps and tutus.

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