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Eclecticism is the habit — or the taste — of mixing many sources and keeping what seems best. In art and building it is a real style-name: a house that takes a Greek column, a Chinese roof line, and a modern window is an example of eclecticism. In thinking, it means you do not join one camp; you take ideas from several. Some people praise it as open-minded. Others use it with a slight , meaning the mix has no centre of its own. It is the noun that matches eclectic; it is not a political party, even though it ends in -.
折衷主義（日常也可說兼收並蓄）
組成From eclectic + -ism.
同家族的字
- eclecticthe adjective this -ism is built from
- eclecticallythe adverb from the same stem
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
eclecticismnoun
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The quality of being eclectic.
- In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
- I am concerned that this encouraging but brief period of success will foster the opinion, already widely held, that the monetary pillar is superfluous, and lead monetary policy analysis back to the kind of muddled eclecticism that brought us the 1970s inflation.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe quality of being eclectic.
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artartsThe quality of being eclectic.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesThe selection of diverse witnesses to a text.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。