classicalityn.
/ˌklasᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌklæsəˈkælədi/ 1.
a. Classical character or quality (of literary or artistic style, of education, taste, etc.). Cf. classical adj. 7.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
1784 Loyola: Novel 33 He was the archetype of Fox, his superior perhaps in force, and inferior in classicality.
1788 in Orig. Lett. Laurence Sterne 12 I should like to know what is the nature of this disorder which you call classicality.
1817 Champion 25 May 166/2 The great beauty of Mr. Kemble's acting is its classicality.
1871 Musical Times 15 116 The treatment of such pieces by the greatest apostles of counterpoint in a past age has thrown a halo of classicality around them.
1928 Times 29 Dec. 6/2 Perfection spells classicality, irrespective of producer's name, whether alive or dead.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 24 Nov. 7 Its title [sc. Prelude, Minuet and Reel for piano] reveals..Pitfield's classicality.
b. An instance or piece of classical learning, art, language, etc.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] > classical scholarship > instance of
classicality1821
1821 L. Hunt in Examiner 12 Aug. Horrent brow is another unseasonable classicality, which cannot possibly affect the reader like common words.
1844 R. P. Ward Chatsworth I. 28 No vulgar classicalities shock the scholar's eye.
1856 Sat. Rev. 2 735/2 Horatian quotations and the like small classicalities.
1932 F. R. Leavis New Bearings in Eng. Poetry ii. 67 He takes over even the nymphs and their attendant classicalities.
1960 Compar. Lit. 12 242 Most surveys of Renaissance reworkings of classicalities will show distortions and attenuations.
1998 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 57 56 The competing classicalities of the Sanskrit and the Tamil.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] > classical scholarship
classicality1812
classicism1870
1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 29 July (1964) I. 198 Did Greek & Roman literature..extend the thousand narrow bigots educated in the very bosom of classicality?
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 54 The land..of mountains and mathematics—of clouds and classicality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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