neoclassic
Americanadjective
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(sometimes initial capital letter) belonging or pertaining to a revival of classic styles or something that is held to resemble classic styles, as in art, literature, music, or architecture.
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(usually initial capital letter) of, relating to, or designating a style of painting and sculpture developed principally from the mid-18th through the mid-19th centuries, characterized chiefly by an iconography derived from classical antiquity, a hierarchical conception of subject matter, severity of composition and, especially in painting, by an oblique lighting of forms in the early phase and a strict linear quality in the later phase of the style.
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Architecture. of, relating to, or designating neoclassicism.
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(sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or designating a style of poetry or prose, developed chiefly in the 17th and 18th centuries, rigidly adhering to canons of form that were derived mainly from classical antiquity, that were exemplified by decorum of style or diction, the three unities, etc., and that emphasized an impersonal expression of universal truths as shown in human actions, representing them principally in satiric and didactic modes.
Other Word Forms
- neo-classicist noun
- neoclassicist noun
Etymology
Origin of neoclassic
Example Sentences
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The Beezers’ neoclassic banks throughout the West include the focus of this week’s column.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2021
Made with pop and hip-hop producers and song doctors, these albums add samples and electro beats to PTM’s neoclassic rock.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2018
Almost 600 people were gathered in the neoclassic Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, with its 60-foot ceiling surrounded by fluted columns, on Constitution Avenue NW.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2017
PG -0.32 % The Anglo-Dutch company occupies Unilever House, its imposing neoclassic headquarters along the River Thames in central London.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2016
His discussion of the function of judgment is, if anything, more conventional within the boundaries of neoclassic criticism than is his view of the imagination.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace
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