Usually means: Fusion of different beliefs, practices.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. syncretism: Merriam-Webster
  2. syncretism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syncretism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. syncretism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syncretism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Syncretism, syncretism: Wordnik
  7. syncretism: Wiktionary
  8. syncretism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. syncretism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. syncretism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. syncretism: Dictionary.com
  12. syncretism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Syncretism (Chinese philosophy), Syncretism (linguistics), Syncretism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Syncretism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. syncretism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. syncretism: Rhymezone
  17. Syncretism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. syncretism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. syncretism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. syncretism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. syncretism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. syncretism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Ism Book (No longer online)
  3. Syncretism: Lexicon of Linguistics

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syncretism: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Syncretism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. syncretism: Anthropological Terms
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (syncretism)

noun:  (chiefly religion) The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (religious, cultural, or otherwise cosmologic or ontologic).
noun:  (linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.

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