a late 18th- and early 19th-century style in architecture, decorative art, and fine art, based on the imitation of surviving classical models and types
2. music
a movement of the 1920s, involving Hindemith, Stravinsky, etc, that sought to avoid the emotionalism of late romantic music by reviving the use of counterpoint, forms such as the classical suite, and small instrumental ensembles
Derived forms
neoclassicist (ˌneoˈclassicist)
noun
Examples of 'neoclassicism' in a sentence
neoclassicism
Its boulevards are garlanded with sooty belle époque masonry and neoclassicism.