eclecticism
[ih-klek-tuh-siz-uh m]
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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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Origin of eclecticism
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Contemporary Examples of eclecticism
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Historical Examples of eclecticism
Eclecticism thus means the application of the psychological method to the history of philosophy.
They form merely a literary branch of the positivist school engrafted upon the eclecticism of M. Cousin.
The Heavenly FatherErnest Naville
Yet it is remarkable that China, at the close of the 19th century, should have again furnished models to Japanese eclecticism.
It finally led the Academy back to Dogmatism, and prepared the way for the Eclecticism with which it disappeared from history.
Sextus Empiricus and Greek ScepticismMary Mills Patrick
What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures,—nature's eclecticism?
Essays, First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
eclecticism
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