Eclectic vs Synthesis - What's the difference?
eclectic | synthesis |
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
* 1893 , John Robson, Hinduism and its Relations to Christianity , page 211, 214
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
* 1983 , Peter J. Wilson, Man, the Promising Primate: The Conditions of Human Evolution , page 140
* 2006 , W. Frederick Zimmerman, Should Barack Obama Be President? , page 153
The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
(chemistry) The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
(logic) A deduction from the general to the particular.
(philosophy) The combination of thesis and antithesis.
(military) In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation; (JP 1-02).
(rhetoric) An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
As nouns the difference between eclectic and synthesis
is that eclectic is someone who selects according to the eclectic method while synthesis is .As an adjective eclectic
is selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.eclectic
English
Alternative forms
* eclectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Chunder Sen and the Progressive Brahmists broke entirely with Hinduism...and he selected from the scriptures of all creeds what seemed best in them for instruction and for worship. It is an eclectic' religion: it seeks to select what is good from all religions, and it has become the latest evidence that no ' eclectic religion can ever influence large numbers of men.
- All members of the Hominoidea, apes and man, show an eclectic taste in food but select, from a wide range of possibilities, only a few to provide the bulk of their diet.
- Colvin said Obama has an eclectic taste in music, listening to everything from Indonesian flute music to OutKast to Motown.