noun (n)

• a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms(noun.cognition)

  Example:
  Classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
  

  Synonym:
  classicalism
  Antonym:
  romantic movement, romanticism
  

  source: wordnet30
• A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism.(noun)

  source: webster1913