syncretistic

What does syncretistic mean?

syncretistic means "relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in syncretistic?

syncretistic has 4 syllables: syn-cre-ti-stic. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for syncretistic?

Close synonyms include syncretic, syncretical, syncretistical, syncretic, syncretical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is syncretistic a common word?

syncretistic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for syncretistic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.