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/pæˈstiːʃ/ · noun
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way..
He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.
Use pastiche when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pastiche means A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way..
Common synonyms include potpourri, medley.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
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