syncratic
syncratic adjective: of a decision, made jointly instead of individually. Also the misspelling of syncretic.
Adjective (1)
syncratic (not comparable)
- Of a decision, made jointly instead of individually.
- The focused interviews indicated that through the life-cycle stages, the upper-middle-class families made syncratic decisions, the lower-middle-class families made syncratic and partially syncratic decisions, and the upper-lower-class families made syncratic, partially syncratic, and autonomic...1969 August, Richard H. Evans, Norman R. Smith, “A Selected Paradigm of Family Behavior”, in Journal of Marriage and Family, volume 31, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 512–517
- […]autonomous decisions that are equally likely to be independently taken by either of the partners are in the middle of the triangle and truly syncratic (or joint) decisions are in the outer-right corner of the triangle.2017, Morris Altman, Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, page 359
Adjective (2)
syncratic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to syncraticism.
Also used as
syncratic is also the misspelling of syncretic.
Origin of syncratic
From Ancient Greek συγκρᾱτικός (sunkrātikós, “mixed together”). By surface analysis, syn- + cratic.
Questions about syncratic
- What does syncratic mean?
- Syncratic means of a decision, made jointly instead of individually.
- What part of speech is syncratic?
- Syncratic is an adjective.
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