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ecumenicism

/ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.sɪzm/

ecumenicism noun: synonym of ecumenism.

Noun

ecumenicism (usually uncountable, plural ecumenicisms)

  1. (usually) Synonym of ecumenism.
    • He [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] corresponded so heavily that scholars are still sorting through his unpublished papers. In his philosophy he practised an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven. Leibniz seems never to have met a philosopher or a theologian he...2010, Neal Stephenson, “Atoms of cognition: metaphysics in the Royal Society, 1715–2010”, in Bill Bryson, editor, Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, Mariner Books, →ISBN...
    Synonyms:
    ecumenism

Synonyms of ecumenicism

Forms of ecumenicism

pluralecumenicisms

Origin of ecumenicism

From ecumenic + -ism. By surface analysis, ecumene + -icism.

Questions about ecumenicism

What does ecumenicism mean?
Ecumenicism means synonym of ecumenism.
What part of speech is ecumenicism?
Ecumenicism is a noun.
How do you pronounce ecumenicism?
Ecumenicism is pronounced /ˌɛk.jʊˈmɛ.nɪ.sɪzm/.
What is the plural of ecumenicism?
The plural of ecumenicism is ecumenicisms.

Words near ecumenicism in the dictionary

  1. Ecumenical Patriarch
  2. Ecumenical Patriarchs
  3. ecumenicalism
  4. ecumenicality
  5. ecumenically
  6. ecumenicism
  7. ecumenicisms
  8. ecumenicist
  9. ecumenicists
  10. ecumenicities
  11. ecumenicity

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