[f. ARCADIAN a.1 + -ISM.] Ideally simple rusticity, pastoral simplicity.
1824. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 412/1. That Shenstone not only ‘affected that arcadianism.’
1859. Masson, Brit. Novelists, iv. 216. A spirit of lyrical pathos, and of poetical Arcadianism.
