Explore Syncretistic through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like syncretic or fusion. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Syncretistic in a sentence
Syncretistic meaning
- Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one.
- Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
Synonyms of Syncretistic
Using Syncretistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one. | Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
- Useful related words include: syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical, fusion.
Context around Syncretistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Syncretistic
- In this selection, "syncretistic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, actively, religion, sect and adding stand out and add context to how "syncretistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a syncretistic sect along and of the syncretistic gnostic religions. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "syncretistic" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with syncretistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hinduism is still regarded a syncretistic religion in the western text-books on religion. (14 words)
The writers of these manuscripts considered themselves ‘Christians’, but owing to their syncretistic beliefs, borrowed heavily from the Greek philosopher Plato. (21 words)
Mycenaean religion was almost certainly polytheistic, and the Mycenaeans were actively syncretistic, adding foreign deities to their pantheon of deities with considerable ease. (23 words)
One aim of the letter was to address the challenges that the community faced in its context of the syncretistic Gnostic religions that were developing in Asia minor. (28 words)
For this reason it is often classified as a syncretistic sect, along with other similar religions in the Way of Former Heaven (Xian Tian Dao) family. (26 words)
Mycenaean religion was almost certainly polytheistic, and the Mycenaeans were actively syncretistic, adding foreign deities to their pantheon of deities with considerable ease. (23 words)
Example sentences (5)
Hinduism is still regarded a syncretistic religion in the western text-books on religion.
For this reason it is often classified as a syncretistic sect, along with other similar religions in the Way of Former Heaven (Xian Tian Dao) family.
Mycenaean religion was almost certainly polytheistic, and the Mycenaeans were actively syncretistic, adding foreign deities to their pantheon of deities with considerable ease.
One aim of the letter was to address the challenges that the community faced in its context of the syncretistic Gnostic religions that were developing in Asia minor.
The writers of these manuscripts considered themselves ‘Christians’, but owing to their syncretistic beliefs, borrowed heavily from the Greek philosopher Plato.