syncretism
1
9.9
- noun
- /ˈsɪŋkrɪˌtɪzəm/
:
sincretismo
- Religious syncretism often occurs when different cultures blend their beliefs and practices together.
- Japanese syncretism
- religious syncretism
- cultural syncretism
So there's a combination of there's a syncretism between rural and urban.
- So there's a combination of there's a syncretism between rural and urban.
Examples
-
Instead of a fear of syncretism, our Christian ethos of hospitality should animate us.
Academic text (2015) -
The circulation of ideas and cultures points to multiple sources of inspiration and therefore suggests syncretism.
Academic text (2008) -
Here, the fear of syncretism appears ultimately to be a fear of Islam itself.
Academic text (2015) -
If anything fit the dictionary definition of syncretism, this was it.
Academic text (2005) -
In some times and places, violations of these rules have also been considered forms of syncretism.
Academic text (2005) -
Instead, it promotes women as representations of cultural syncretism and integration.
Academic text (2005) -
For the folklorists, they are examples of the religious syncretism that combined African, Amerindian, and Christian elements.
Academic text (1996) -
Popular religion is a syncretism of magic and Catholicism, both of which have fluid, overlapping boundaries.
Academic text (2003) -
Across this set of topical trends, the themes of missionization, conversion, and syncretism have been repeatedly born again.
Academic text (2002) -
In its focus on cultural syncretism, Shaw's reading of Concierto Barcoco is akin to that of Gonzalez Echevarria.
Academic text (1998)
Antonyms
How Syncretic
33
4.1
1
9.9
1
8.4
- Formal
1
8.0
- Specialized
1
9.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
syncretism = syncretic (semi-transparent) = syn + cret + ism
Formed by a standard noun derivation from the adjective 'syncretic' using the productive suffix '-ism'.
Etymology
Syncretism comes from Greek parts syn- 'together' and a word that once named a joining of groups, so it is about 'putting things together'; that's why syncretism describes blending different religions or beliefs into one.