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classicism: a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"

humanism collapse: the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural; the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies

scholarship collapse: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

letters collapse: the literary culture; "this book shows American letters at its best"; scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters"

chastity collapse: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)

directness collapse: trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"

clarity collapse: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

naturalness collapse: the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"; the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"

fluency collapse: the quality of being facile in speech and writing; skillfulness in speaking or writing

reading collapse: the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments; "he has a job meter reading for the gas company"; the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message; "he enjoys reading books"; a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"; written material intended to be read; "the teacher assigned new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the airport"; a particular interpretation or performance; "on that reading it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of Mozart"; a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England

felicity collapse: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

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