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UK
/ɪklˈɛktɪsˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style
How To Use eclecticism In A Sentence
- ECLECTICISM : Nor can we find any willingness to make common cause with false religiosity as long as Christianity is accepted as one among many legitimate viewpoints.
- It's not appropriate to regard neutralism as eclecticism and then criticize or thoroughly abandon it.
- Wild eclecticism has been the hallmark of Boyd's 30-year career as record producer, failed film mogul and quixotic entrepreneur.
- Besides, eclecticism comes naturally to the singer, who hails from a musical household.
- There's a giddy and gladdening eclecticism in the range of topics and tone. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
- However, the article as a whole makes it clear that eclecticism requires both imaginative genius, the gift to combine and explain, and the ability to gather evi - dence and to put facts to the test; only he who com - bines (objective) experimental and (subjective) system - atic eclecticism, like Democritus, Aristotle, and Bacon, may claim to be a truly eclectic philosopher in ENLIGHTENMENT
- Like fellow Beat Jedi Madlib, Spinna adhered to a jazz-based aesthetic but was willing to dig into other genre's for a pasticcio rewarding in its eclecticism.
- So here's today's exercise in prognostication: what will be the visual artistic style that history will glue to the current era of new music, post-minimalism, non-pop, the new eclecticism, whatever you want to call it? Take a picture, sweetie; I ain't got time to waste
- Such eclecticism could have resulted in visual mayhem in less experienced curatorial hands.
- This eclecticism has often been confused with tokenism, but it speaks to the growing cultural fluidity of the postmodern times in which we live.