eclectic
The range and eclecticism of Edinburgh's hotels matches that of its famed festival.
The film shows a certain wit and a refined eclecticism.
He is generally recognized for a musical eclecticism that draws from many classical and folk styles.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Variety and mixtures
all manner of somethingidiom
alphabet soup
assorted
assortment
biodiverse
hybridize
hybridized
it takes all sorts (to make a world)idiom
jumble
kludge
odds and ends
of every stripe/of all stripesidiom
panoply
patchwork
polycentric
this
this and thatidiom
variety is the spice of lifeidiom
variously
wide choice

Examples of eclecticism

eclecticism
This eclecticism informed a string of still undervalued, uncollected essays.
Although historians of science have justly criticized his boundless credulity, aimless empiricism, and exasperating eclecticism, he was nevertheless master of his craft.
Formally the book covers both prose and poetry, and the eclecticism of the selection participates in the obvious diversity of the writer's investigations and observations.
Early modern authors practised an intellectual eclecticism, which frequently makes it difficult to describe them as representatives of one particular context or another.
Although it is reasonable to respond by defending eclecticism, it is wor th noting that this pedagogy is not a bag of diverse tricks.
In fact cultural studies, well-known for its theoretical eclecticism, has inherited its dual focus (formal and political) on representation from these and many other sources.
An interesting observation was suggested, relating this method to contemporary ideas of deconstructivism and eclecticism.
That theoretical eclecticism is a matter both of strategy and of mixed, historically sedimented origins and associations.
By the 1830s, the growth of the institution had produced stylistic eclecticism, and its overall grounds had bifurcated into historic and modern sections.
What gives us the heterogeneity and endless eclecticism is the constant flirting with fashionable art values, or worse, amateur play with philosophy.
As the authors remark, a 'large number of corpus linguists seem to practice eclecticism in the research techniques they use' (p. 45).
The trumpeting of eclecticism, therefore, thunders as a testimony to intent but perhaps heralds little else.
Yet perhaps this eclecticism is the way forward.
That theoretical eclecticism has enabled cultural studies to name new objects and make new connections.
Rather than claiming some sort of rock purism, it celebrates rock hybridity at its most extreme and celebrates as well its own eclecticism.
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