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Noun
eclecticism (countable and uncountable, plural eclecticisms)
- The quality of being eclectic.
- 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
Translations
the quality of being eclectic
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philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories
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form of art based on multiple styles
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eclecticism n (plural eclecticisme)
Declension
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