MEANING
1. Drawing on the artistic or architectural forms associated with ancient Greece and Rome in a later period.
2. Relating to economic approaches that analyze choices and market outcomes through incentives, constraints, and supply and demand.
Use it for
identifying a revival of classical artistic forms; linking a building’s style to classical models; distinguishing stylistic revival from original ancient worksSeparates two established disciplinary traditions rather than treating the adjective as a generic word for modern classicism. Academic functions: Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- neoclassical architecture
- a neoclassical facade
- neoclassical sculpture
On the page
The museum’s neoclassical facade associates civic authority with an idealized classical past.
The analysis distinguishes the building’s neoclassical style from its modern construction methods.
The paper contrasts a neoclassical model of household choice with an institutional account.
The critique targets particular neoclassical assumptions rather than all uses of formal economic models.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- neoclassical
Usage notes
Relational adjective, normally attributive and non-gradable. Neo-classical is a hyphenated variant. Register: technical. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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