syncretise

A verb used to indicate the act of combining or reconciling differing beliefs, systems, or practices, especially in philosophy or religion.

• 🇪🇸Verbo utilizado para designar la acción de combinar o conciliar diferentes creencias, sistemas o prácticas, especialmente en filosofía o religión.

1. Become fused C2 formal

   To merge or combine different elements, ideas, or systems into a unified whole.

   • The two distinct musical traditions began to syncretise over time.
   • Different cultural practices often syncretise when communities live together.
   • The dialects syncretised into a single language after centuries of contact.

   🇪🇸sincretizar

   Sinónimos: amalgamateassimilateblendcoalescecombineconvergefuseintegratemergeunify

   Antónimos: disintegratedisunitedivideseparatesplit

2. Unite beliefs or conflicting principles C2 formal

   To reconcile or bring together different, often opposing, beliefs, doctrines, or principles.

   • The philosopher attempted to syncretise elements of Stoicism and Epicureanism.
   • Early Christian thinkers syncretised pagan and Jewish traditions.
   • The new political movement syncretised ideas from both the left and the right.

   🇪🇸Sincretizar

   Sinónimos: amalgamateblendcombinefuseharmonizeintegratereconcileunify

   Antónimos: disunitedividepolarizeseparatesplitsunder

• syncretised past participle
• syncretized past participle
• syncretised past simple
• syncretized past simple
• syncretising present participle
• syncretizing present participle
• syncretises third person singular
• syncretizes third person singular