Accommodation vs Syncretism - What's the difference?
accommodation | syncretism |
(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
#* (rfdate), Sir (1609-1676)
# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
#* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
#* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
# A loan of money.
# An accommodation bill or note.
# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
The reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (or the attempt at such fusion).
(linguistics) The fusion of different inflexional forms.
As nouns the difference between accommodation and syncretism
is that accommodation is (lodging) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc while syncretism is the reconciliation or fusion of different systems or beliefs (or the attempt at such fusion).accommodation
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
- The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
- To come to terms of accommodation .
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .