Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
eclecticism . - noun An
exponent oradvocate of eclecticism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who selects according to the eclectic method
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word eclecticist.
Examples
-
But before you go gumming up the comments with triumphalist obituaries to serialism (that this confirmed eclecticist only leaves undeleted out of a combination of courtesy and laziness), it's worth considering Sondheim's career, one that never strayed from the ambitious path that Babbitt hints at.
Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
-
But before you go gumming up the comments with triumphalist obituaries to serialism (that this confirmed eclecticist only leaves undeleted out of a combination of courtesy and laziness), it's worth considering Sondheim's career, one that never strayed from the ambitious path that Babbitt hints at.
The Hills of Tomorrow Matthew Guerrieri 2008
-
For over a decade, I've been hearing new music that gleefully jumps the lines between various schools and styles, and I've never been of the opinion that there are musical goals that are limited to one genre or vocabulary only — I'm a confirmed eclecticist.
Archive 2007-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
-
For over a decade, I've been hearing new music that gleefully jumps the lines between various schools and styles, and I've never been of the opinion that there are musical goals that are limited to one genre or vocabulary only — I'm a confirmed eclecticist.
On the Pulitzers Matthew Guerrieri 2007
-
And I don't want you to go thinking that we can expose and repudiate the revisionist and eclecticist historico-ideologues of the ruling classes just by arranging strikes and forming into unions, because the trade-unionist politics of the working class is nothing more than precisely a petit-bourgeois politics of the working class.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
-
Nneka: Speaking of soul, this German-Nigerian eclecticist has a singer-songwriter's flair for lyrical directness with a musical bounce that's inflected by hip-hop and reggae.
-
One of their most esteemed regular gigs is acting as the touring outfit for rediscovered '70s Bay Area R&B eccentric Darondo, though they've also accompanied U.K. soul sensation Alice Russell, Ubiquity Records' eclecticist Nino Moschella, and funk-steeped electronic up-and-comer Wallpaper.
-
Surveying the north and through foreign waters for a moment before drifting west: rumor has it that wicked and weird Canadian eclecticist
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.