In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
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Eclecticism
Synonyms for "eclecticism" (27 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (6)
Noun(1 words)
composite philosophy
Strong matches (8)
Noun(5 words)
cross genre fusioneclectic approacheclectic methodgenre blendinghybrid design
Related words (13)
Noun(3 words)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesartistic movementdecidingdecision makingdesign philosophyintellectual stanceliterary techniquemusical practicephilosophical approach
More specific
9 entriesarchitectural eclecticismcultural eclecticismdecorative eclecticismeclectic methodeclectic philosophyinterior eclecticismliterary eclecticismmusical eclecticismpoetic eclecticism
Collocations
6 entriesartistic eclecticismcultural eclecticismeclectic approacheclectic designeclectic methodeclectic philosophy
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
7 translations across 7 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- eclecticisme noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Dutch
1 entries- eclectisch noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Finnish
1 entries- eklektisyys noun (the quality of being eclectic)
French
1 entries- éclectisme noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Polish
1 entries- eklektyzm noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Portuguese
1 entries- ecletismo noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Spanish
1 entries- eclecticismo noun (the quality of being eclectic)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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