Eclecticism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eclecticism is a noun meaning The quality of being eclectic.
Meaning
The quality of being eclectic.
More Meanings
- (textual criticism) The selection of diverse witnesses to a text.
Example Sentences
In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
I am concerned that this encouraging but brief period of success will foster the opinion, already widely held, that the monetary pillar is superfluous, and lead monetary policy analysis back to the kind of muddled eclecticism that brought us the 1970s inflation.
Word Forms
- eclecticisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eccentricity, ecumenicality, offbeatness, dialecticism, miscellaneousness, idiosyncraticity.
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