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noun
The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (religious, cultural, or otherwise cosmologic or ontologic).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: syncresis
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The fusion of different inflexional forms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fusion
noun
the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: union, unification
History
From Latin syncretismus, from Ancient Greek συγκρητισμός (sunkrētismós, “federation of Cretan cities”), from συγκρητίζω (sunkrētízō, “to unite against a common enemy”), from σύν (sún, “together”) (see English syn-) + Κρῆτες (Krêtes, “Cretans”). By surface analysis, syn- + Crete + -ism (“Crete joining together”).
Across languages
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
