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eclecticism
[ ih-klek-tuh-siz-uhm ]
noun
- the use or advocacy of an eclectic method.
- a tendency in architecture and the decorative arts to mix various historical styles with modern elements with the aim of combining the virtues of many styles or increasing allusive content.
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Their eclecticism is more far-reaching and complicated than ’90s or 2000s young people, even more omnivorous, so it’s harder for corporate executives to market a one-size-fits-all youth culture to, or for so-called cool hunters to narc on them.
Our reviewer Michael Caines asks if the eclecticism adds up to an adventure.
Many hundred years previously Galen had originated a method, which deserves, perhaps, the title of pure eclecticism.
The attempt was made, in sculpture and in painting, to combine results already won, generally in a shallow eclecticism.
Meanwhile Miriam Finch with her subtle eclecticism continued her education of Eugene.
But with the Christian philosophers it was not merely the negative influence of scepticism which drove them to Eclecticism.
They have failed, like all the juste-milieux of the world, and are laughed at for their eclecticism.
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