Antonyms for classicality


Grammar : Noun
Spell : klas-i-kuh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈklæs ɪ kəl


Definition of classicality

Origin :
  • 1590s, "of the highest rank" (originally in literature), from classic + -al (1). Classical music (1836) was defined originally against romantic music.
  • [I]n general, as now used, the term classical includes the composers active in instrumental music from somewhere about 1700 to say 1830. Hence the list includes among the great names those of Bach, his sons, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek, Pleyel, Cramer, etc. The next step beyond the term classical is "modern romantic," the composers of which school may be taken to include all the writers for pianoforte from about 1829 (when Mendelssohn published the first "Songs without Words") down to the present. The term romantic in this sense means strongly marked, extraordinary, intending to tell stories and the like. ["Music, Its Ideals and Methods," W.S.B. Mathews, 1897]
  • But already by 1880s it was acknowledged the term had a double sense: Music that had withstood the test of time, as well as music of a style contrasted to "romantic." Later (early 20c.) it was contrasted to jazz (in this sense more often with reference to the orchestras than to the music itself). Still later in contrast to popular music generally (mid-20c.).
  • As in simplicity : noun absence of complication,
Example sentences :
  • Vittoria sent him a poetical epistle, full of tenderness and classicality.
  • Extract from : « The Duchess of Trajetto » by Anne Manning
  • Nothing can be more superficial than this varnish of classicality.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 » by Various
  • Moreover, let me remind your worship's classicality that no one of mortals is sapient at all times.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Upon my classicality, Miss Norah, you're a rogue; there's nobody lookin', you seraphim!
  • Extract from : « Going To Maynooth » by William Carleton
  • This bit of classicality was in a humble way imitated by Lorenzo and the menagerie lion.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No.690 » by Various
  • These are masterly executions after the ancient sculptors, and give the scene an air of Grecian classicality.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 343, November 29, 1828 » by Various

Synonyms for classicality

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