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syncretic, a. (n.)|sɪnˈkriːtɪk, -ˈkrɛtɪk|
[f. syncretism, prob. after docetic, docetism.]
1. a. Characterized by syncretism; aiming at a union or reconciliation of diverse beliefs, practices, or systems.
1840F. Barham Alist 17 The Syncretic Society which we founded for the advancement of literature. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVII. 293 The philosophy which at the time Minucius was writing arrayed itself against Christianity, was..syncretic. 1884Sayce Anc. Empires East 204 The syncretic spirit of Phœnician art.
b. n. = syncretist. (Ogilvie, 1883.)
2. Psychol. Relating to or characterized by the fusion of concepts or sensations. Cf. syncretism 3.
1932M. Gabain tr. Piaget's Moral Judgment of Child ii. 192 Since every word obtains its meaning as a function of these syncretic schemas, words end by acquiring a substance of their own independently of reality. 1952Werner & Kaplan Acquisition of Word Meanings ii. 48 The conclusion can be drawn..that syncretic concepts are more characteristic of the younger children. 1962I. Sarnoff Personality Dynamics & Devel. vi. 126 One variety of syncretic perception..involves a synthesis of sensations that pertain to several different sense modalities. 1969T. Freeman Psychopathol. of Psychoses viii. 126 This thinking defect consists in the re-emergence of condensing or syncretic trends, fusing concepts that in normal circumstances are discrete and autonomous.
Hence synˈcretical a. in sense 1; synˈcreticism |-sɪz(ə)m| = syncretism.
1860Ld. Acton Lett. lxiv. (1906) 145 The representative among Belgian public men of this syncreticism, Dedecker. 1864tr. Renan's Life of Jesus Introd. 18 Asia Minor was..the theatre of a strange movement of syncretical philosophy. |