Syncretist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs.

    "Both are syncretist collaborations between a flexible jazz musician and a famously uncompromising genius who invented his or her own style — two musicians of putatively different worlds."

Example

More examples

""What's your religion, Sam?" "I’m a syncretist." "What's that?" "I'm an eclectic. I mix up different ideas from different belief systems." "Oh, how uncanny!" "It works for me!""

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.