Syncretism Definition

sĭngkrĭ-tĭzəm, sĭn-
noun
The combination or reconciliation of differing beliefs or practices in religion, philosophy, etc.
Webster's New World
The merging into one of two or more differently inflected forms.
Webster's New World
The resulting identity between two or more inflected forms of a word (Ex.: past tense twisted in “She twisted the handle” and past participle twisted in “the twisted vine”)
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Other Word Forms of Syncretism

Noun

Singular:
syncretism
Plural:
syncretisms

Origin of Syncretism

  • Latin syncretismus, from Ancient Greek συγκρητισμός (synkrÄ“tismos, “federation of Cretan cities"), from συγκρητίζω (synkrÄ“tizō, “to unite against a common enemy"), from σύν (syn, “together") (English syn-) + Κρῆτες (KrÄ“tes, “Cretans") (English Cretans). Surface analysis is syn- +"Ž Crete +"Ž -ism “Crete joining together".

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek sunkrētismos union from sunkrētizein to unite (in the manner of the Cretan cities) sun- syn- Krēs Krēt- Cretan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Syncretism Sentence Examples

  • The syncretism of the Babylonian and the Persian religion was also the nursing-ground of Gnosticism.

  • The object of his work was to free the doctrine from the syncretism of Ammonius and to reproduce the pure doctrine of Aristotle.

  • The spirit of syncretism manifests itself in this department of animism too; the immanent spirit of the earlier period becomes the presiding genius or local god of later times, and with the rise of the doctrine of separable souls we again reach the confines of animism pure and simple.

  • The Milhamoth is throughout modelled after the plan of the great work of Jewish philosophy, the Moreh Nebuhim of Moses Maimonides, and may be regarded as an elaborate criticism from the more philosophical point of view (mainly Averroistic) of the syncretism of Aristotelianism and Jewish orthodoxy as presented in that work.

  • As set forth in their own sacred book, the Majmu`, it seems to be a syncretism of Isma`ilite doctrines and the ancient heathenism of Harran.

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