- Reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous.
- Linguistics. The merging of two or more originally different inflectional forms.
Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought. It is especially associated with the attempt to merge and
analogize several originally
discrete traditions, especially in the
theology and
mythology of
religion, and thus assert an underlying unity.
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