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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

And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If Judaism as a system of doctrine is necessarily syncretistic in its conception of God, then we may expect the same syncretism in its theory of God's relation to man.

From Judaism by Abrahams, Israel

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