eclecticism

English

Etymology

eclectic + -ism

Pronunciation

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Noun

eclecticism (countable and uncountable, plural eclecticisms)

  1. The quality of being eclectic
    • 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.
  2. (philosophy) An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories to gain complementary insights into phenomena
  3. (art) Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From eclectic + -ism.

Noun

eclecticism n (plural eclecticisme)

  1. eclecticism

Declension

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