NOUN
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the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)
a syncretism of material and immaterial theories - the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
How To Use syncretism In A Sentence
- Religious syncretism is manifest in almost every aspect of the majority of Javanese rites.
- The best way of self-cultivation is to wipe out the coxcombical mirage, so as to return to the syncretism of inside and outside.
- Concomitantly, there has been a shift from religion to spiritualisms manifested in a trend toward syncretism and the simultaneous identification with different traditions.
- Any way you looked at it there was the syncretism of myth, myth's happy appetite to engorge on narrative strains. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
- Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school. Old Calabria
- Candomble is often presented in the literature as a religion born of syncretism between Catholicism and the Yoruba gods and liturgies of West Africa.
- The marriage prohibition consequently played into the concern over intermarriage as a source of religious syncretism and idolatry.
- Inculturation always runs the risk of syncretism, in all cultures without exception.
- In the current literature, instances of syncretism are being increasingly cited to support particular models of morphology and feature structure.
- In addition, there is often a layer of syncretism between Buddhism and animism.
