eclecticism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English eclectic

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English eclecticism

From eclectic + -ism.

Pronunciation

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Noun

eclecticism (countable and uncountable, plural eclecticisms)

1. The quality of being eclectic.
   • 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:

     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.

   • 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 Honour of Otmar Issing, March 16-17 2006, p. 168

     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.

   1. (philosophy) An approach to thought that draws upon multiple theories.
   2. (art) Any form of art that borrows from multiple other styles.

1. 1. (textual criticism) The selection of diverse witnesses to a text.

Translations

the quality of being eclectic

• Catalan: eclecticisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: eclectisch (nl)
• Finnish: eklektisyys
• French: éclectisme (fr) m
• Polish: eklektyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: ecletismo (pt) m
• Spanish: eclecticismo m

philosophical approach that draws on multiple theories

• Catalan: eclecticisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: eklekticismus m, eklektismus m
• Finnish: eklektismi
• French: éclectisme (fr) m
• Macedonian: еклекти́зам m (eklektízam)
• Polish: eklektyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: ecletismo (pt) m
• Spanish: eclecticismo m
• Swedish: eklekticism (sv) c

form of art based on multiple styles

• Catalan: eclecticisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 折中主義 / 折中主义 (zh) (zhézhōng zhǔyì)

• Czech: eklekticismus m, eklektismus m
• Finnish: eklektismi
• French: éclectisme (fr) m
• German: Eklektizismus (de) m
• Kazakh: эклектизм (èklektiyzm)
• Polish: eklektyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: ecletismo (pt) m
• Spanish: eclecticismo m
• Swedish: eklekticism (sv) c

Romanian

Etymology

From eclectic +‎ -ism.

Noun

eclecticism n (plural eclecticisme)

1. eclecticism

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	eclecticism	eclecticismul	eclecticisme	eclecticismele
genitive-dative	eclecticism	eclecticismului	eclecticisme	eclecticismelor
vocative	eclecticismule		eclecticismelor