"syncretistic" meaning in English

See syncretistic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˌsɪŋkɹəˈtɪstɪk/ Forms: more syncretistic [comparative], most syncretistic [superlative]
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  1. Relating to the merging of two ideals, organizations or languages into one.
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  2. (linguistics) Relating to a historical tendency for a language (such as English) to reduce its use of inflection.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: syncretistically Related terms: syncretism
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          "ref": "1995 June 22, Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2017:",
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