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say it: KLAS-i-siz-uhm
classicism is a noun meaning "a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms". It is pronounced /ˈklæsɪˌsɪzəm/ — KLAS-i-siz-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for classicism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.