eclecticism

eclectic | American Dictionary

eclectic
adjective
us/ɪˈklek·tɪk, ekˈlek-/
consisting of different types, methods, styles, etc.:
It was an eclectic mix of our ethnic foods and traditional Thanksgiving food.

eclectic | Business English

eclectic
adjective
uk /ekˈlektɪk/us
including many different styles or methods:
Pilard, who takes an eclectic approach to identifying cheap stocks, invests in small and midsize companies, as well as large ones.

Examples of eclectic

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Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitative survey and qualitative interviews for the study of current rural labour transformations.
The diversity of themes covered in the papers is the reason why this seemed to be such an eclectic mix.
The essays in this collection, wide-ranging and eclectic as they are, cannot easily or with one voice answer this question.
In the best cases, design was not the eclectic re-use of vernacular images.
This constitutive account of the numerous and fragmented layers in the construction of film music is a necessary element for eclectic film inquiry.
With regard to content and coverage of bioresource technology, the assemblage of articles is essentially eclectic and fascinating.
In an introductory book, however, an eclectic approach is in my view entirely justified.
None of which is to claim that stars are alive, a common misinterpretation of such an eclectic stance.
Indeed, in his extremely diverse and eclectic output, relatively straight-ahead jazz appears as the point of departure and constant reference.
The methodological and theoretical inspiration behind this broad agenda is eclectic.
Consequently, one studies life with the means available, at the cost of transmitting impure, eclectic, or frankly incoherent metaphysical opinions.
It is these 'eclectic' discourses that feed the city's civic culture: those ceremonies, customs and codes that delineate appropriate public behaviour.
The organization represented an eclectic group of socialists who widely disagreed as to socialist strategy.
So that my taste was, on one hand, refined and defined, but eclectic on the other.
Other members of the faculty also have eclectic backgrounds, ranging from performance to purely academic.
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