Syncretism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYNCRETISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the reconciliation or union of conflicting beliefs or an effort intending such; a flagrant compromise in religion or philosophy
• the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought
• the merging of different inflectional varieties of a word during the development of a language.
• Attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
• the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)
• the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the combination of different forms of belief or practice

Words related to SYNCRETISM

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Words that contain SYNCRETISM

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How to use SYNCRETISM in a sentence

• There appears to be a very early example of syncretism in Australia.
• The movement toward religious syncretism of which Bahaism is just now the expression will not be so easy to dispose of.
• Its capital was the capital of the world, and also, from the beginning of the third century, of religious syncretism.
• The Neoplatonic philosophy therefore presupposes the religious syncretism of the third century, and cannot be understood without it.
• The great forces which were half unconsciously at work in this syncretism, were reflectively grasped by Neoplatonism.
• It is the final fruit of the developments resulting from the political, national and religious syncretism which arose from the undertakings of Alexander the Great, and the Romans.
• But the syncretism of Tzschirner was equally difficult of accomplishment.
• It was the ever-recurring incongruity, the repeated syncretism, which made him vaguely afraid of himself and of the future.
• Alongside of this, however, although in a subordinate position, the development of the Hellenistic movement and the ancient Irano-Semitic syncretism continued to proceed.
• The living movement was towards a syncretism of religious ideas and practices, all of which came from the Eastern provinces and beyond them.
• They attempted syncretism and succeeded in their scheme.
• In the histories of religions in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, we are familiar with efforts at syncretism.
• Indeed, it would be hard to find in any of the great religions of the world an utter absence of syncretism, or the union of apparently hostile religious ideas.

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