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eclecticism

eclecticism noun: the quality of being eclectic.

Noun

eclecticism (countable and uncountable, plural eclecticisms)

  1. The quality of being eclectic.
    • 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.1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255
    • 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.2006, Robert E. Lucas, in: Panel Discussion: Central Banking: Is Science Replacing Art?, in: European Central Bank (ed.), Monetary Policy: A Journey from Theory to Practice: An ECB Colloquium Held in...
    1. An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories.
    2. Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles.
  2. The selection of diverse witnesses to a text.

eclecticism meaning in Tamil

eclecticism in Tamil

நற்தேர்வுச் செயல்

Forms of eclecticism

pluraleclecticisms

Origin of eclecticism

From eclectic + -ism.

Questions about eclecticism

What does eclecticism mean?
Eclecticism means the quality of being eclectic.
What is eclecticism in Tamil?
Eclecticism in Tamil is நற்தேர்வுச் செயல். See Eclecticism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is eclecticism?
Eclecticism is a noun.
What is the plural of eclecticism?
The plural of eclecticism is eclecticisms.

Words near eclecticism in the dictionary

  1. eclectically
  2. eclecticise
  3. eclecticised
  4. eclecticises
  5. eclecticising
  6. eclecticism
  7. eclecticisms
  8. eclecticist
  9. eclecticists
  10. eclecticize
  11. eclecticized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eclecticism (page history and authors); eclecticism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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