Syncretism

Quick meaning: Syncretism is a noun meaning (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.

Meaning

(linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly religion) The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (religious, cultural, or otherwise cosmologic or ontologic).

Example Sentences

In this chapter, I will investigate whether they deserve this name by looking at syncretisms between clusivity and other person markers.

Kraft's functional view of Anthropology eventually leads to syncretism because God is understood as working within a modern, humanistic paradigm.

The strategies of religious syncretism—the active transformation through renegotiation, reorganization, and redefinition of clashing belief systems—are consistent with the creolization process.

In this paper a distinction is assumed between full syncretism, which affects whole morphemes, and partial syncretism, which affects only some case allomorphs, and also between syncretism proper and mere loss of a case morpheme.

Word Forms

• syncretisms

Synonyms for syncretism

Depending on context, synonyms include syncresis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include syncreticism, inclusivism, concrescence, combinationalism, synchysis, conciliarity.

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