néoclassicisme
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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néoclassicisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, au retour à l’antique qui eut lieu à Paris et en Europe à partir des années 1750 en réaction contre le style qui prévalait alors, et qui se caractérise par la vo... Pronounced \ne.o.kla.si.sism\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | néoclassicisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ne.o.kla.si.sism\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for néoclassicisme is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ne.o.kla.si.sism\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for néoclassicisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is néoclassicisme, spelled N-É-O-C-L-A-S-S-I-C-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, au retour à l’antique qui eut lieu à Paris et en Europe à partir des années 1750 en réaction contre le style qui prévalait alors, et qui se caractérise par la volonté de retrouver la grâce des modèles grecs, ainsi que la grandeur et la vigueur latines.
- 2Courant poétique et musical, qui se développa dans l’entre-deux-guerres en opposition au romantisme.
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