CLASSICISM Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

classicism

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Definition of classicism

as in dignity

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Recent Examples of classicism The film shows you how Lean, for all his lavishly exacting middle-of-the-road classicism, was a radical filmmaker and perhaps the key inventor (along with Hitchcock) of modern Hollywood cinema. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 May 2026 BelarteStudio Also at WSA, interior designer Nina Takesh will launch her Eastern Blush wallpaper collection inspired by Persian heritage, European classicism and Parisian fashion. — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 12 May 2026 The office itself leans toward old-school classicism, its conference and sitting rooms decorated with museum-quality Hudson River School paintings and 19th-century antiques. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 May 2026 The new film is both Akin’s strongest and, with its stately, picturesque classicism, his least characteristic work in some time. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for classicism

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Noun

In criticism, everything counts, including the obvious, and Nolan’s film positively invites the comparison, dressing itself—in spite of its deference to current mass-market sensibilities—in the dignity of a classic.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
Brazzale says patients who are declining may worry about soiling themselves, losing their dignity, or being moved out of their home at the end.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of dignity

Noun

Saariaho never once loses control of momentum and never insults her own tastefulness.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2026
Stern’s design, woven through and behind the original 1908 building and the 1939 addition that gave the museum its full-block width, is transformative yet inconspicuous, embodying his values of understated patriotism, historical preservation, tastefulness, and memory.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Dec. 2025

Definition of tastefulness

Noun

All of this shone vividly through his work, which shared his joy, artfulness and deep feeling, and most of all privileged human experience and social interaction.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Mike Bowman, designer, furniture industry expert, and director of marketing for Harmonia Living, says this trend relies on furnishings to bring artfulness to a space—rather than just functionality.

— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of artfulness

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Check out the gorgeous coat and jacket options at Bernardo, including the super on-trend Colette Military Jacket or the Chelsea Colorblock Utility Jacket, a layerable masterpiece of workwear chic.

— Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
What’s more, lying fully reclined while traveling always feels very business-class chic.

— Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026

Definition of chic

Noun

An emotional buildup isn’t new for them, but the clarity with which its alt-rock grandiosity is captured is—a result of trusting producer Alex Farrar, at Asheville’s Drop of Sun Studio, for the first time.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 July 2026
Griffith’s own work looks stiff and sentimental, weighed down with melodrama and grandiosity that may have seemed dated even in 1915.

— Vivian Yee, New York Times, 20 June 2026

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