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What does syncretistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
  2. Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one.
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It can be argued that formation of self-identity in general and religious identity in particular is inherently syncretistic.
The philosophy tends to be a syncretistic mixture of Sankhya and Vedanta thought, with special and at times exclusive emphasis on the god's power, or shakti.
Followers of Asian 20th-century neoreligions, neoreligious movements, radical new crisis religions, and non-Christian syncretistic mass religions.
Eclecticism for Newman was primarily syncretistic, combining elements of Greek philosophy and other schools.
The Simonian system at most might be named, on the basis of the syncretistic religion founded by Simon Magus.
These exogamous marriages introduced the possibility of idolatry and syncretistic practices into the community.

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