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eclecticism

noun

Etymology

From eclectic + -ism.

  1. derived from ἐκλεκτικός
  2. derived from éclectique
  3. suffixed as eclecticism — “eclectic + ism”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being eclectic.

    • 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.

  2. The selection of diverse witnesses to a text.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eclecticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA