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syncretistic

American  
[sing-kri-tist-ik] / ˌsɪŋ krɪˈtɪst ɪk /

adjective

  1. tending toward or characterized by syncretism.


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Our conversation is sprawling, a wild syncretistic display of the RZA’s curiosities.

From Washington Post Apr. 16, 2020

Because they are syncretistic, they are careful to spend time in opposing camps, always opening lines of communication.

From Seattle Times Aug. 22, 2017

She gingerly hopes that a deistic, syncretistic "perennial philosophy" may fill the gap.

From Time Magazine Archive

No syncretistic one-world religion was in the making, the soft-spoken Cardinal noted, but believers in different creeds can seek "common ground" and "make each other welcome" in their houses of worship.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may even be said that in theology the boundaries between the orthodox Judaism of the Pharisees and a syncretistic Judaism were of an elastic kind.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

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