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eclecticism: making decisions on the basis of what seems best instead of following some single doctrine or style

sectarianism collapse: a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination; "he condemned religious sectarianism"

mingling collapse: the action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties"

chiropractic collapse: a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure

admixture collapse: an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand"; the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

pluralism collapse: the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time; the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements; a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated

syncretism collapse: the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections); the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy); "a syncretism of material and immaterial theories"

atomism collapse: (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe"; (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association

fusion collapse: the act of fusing (or melting) together; correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization; the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept; an occurrence that involves the production of a union; a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy; the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

integration collapse: an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined; the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community

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