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eclecticism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English eclectic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English eclecticism From eclectic + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being eclectic.
   • 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. 2006, Robert E. Lucas, in: Panel Discussion: Central Banking: Is Science Replacing Art?, in: European Central Bank (ed.), Monetary Policy: A Journey from Theory to Practice: An ECB Colloquium Held in Honour of Otmar Issing, March 16-17 2006, p. 168
   • 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. 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
2. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being eclectic. ▸ An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories.
3. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being eclectic. ▸ Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles.
4. The selection of diverse witnesses to a text.

Forms

Translations (29)

fr éclectisme (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · cs eklekticismus (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · cs eklektismus (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · pl eklektyzm (form of art based on multiple styles) · fi eklektismi (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · fr éclectisme (form of art based on multiple styles) · pt ecletismo (the quality of being eclectic) · es eclecticismo (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · ca eclecticisme (form of art based on multiple styles) · cs eklektismus (form of art based on multiple styles) · fr éclectisme (the quality of being eclectic) · pl eklektyzm (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · fi eklektismi (form of art based on multiple styles) · fi eklektisyys (the quality of being eclectic) · sv eklekticism (form of art based on multiple styles) · sv eklekticism (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · mk еклекти́зам (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · ca eclecticisme (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · es eclecticismo (the quality of being eclectic) · pt ecletismo (philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories) · es eclecticismo (form of art based on multiple styles) · cmn 折中主義 /折中主义 (form of art based on multiple styles) · nl eclectisch (the quality of being eclectic) · pl eklektyzm (the quality of being eclectic) · kk эклектизм (form of art based on multiple styles) · pt ecletismo (form of art based on multiple styles) · ca eclecticisme (the quality of being eclectic) · de Eklektizismus (form of art based on multiple styles) · cs eklekticismus (form of art based on multiple styles)