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Syncretistic

//ˌsɪŋkɹəˈtɪstɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one.

    "One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements."

  2. 2
    Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or characterized by syncretism wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections wordnet

Etymology

From syncret(ism) + -istic.

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