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eclecticism
noun
The practice of drawing from varied ideas, styles, or sources.
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The exhibition's eclecticism brought together pottery, photographs, and woven art.
The curator defended her eclecticism as a purposeful choice to let different approaches speak to one another. Fusion described the integrated sound-and-paper installation more precisely than it described every work sharing the room. The array of bowls, for example, remained a collection whose separate objects could be compared side by side. In her introduction, she explained why each format belonged in the exhibition, showing that breadth of selection could rest on a clear organizing idea rather than on indiscriminate accumulation.
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eclecticadjective
Drawing ideas, styles, or elements from varied sources.
Her eclectic bookshelf held poetry, geology, and detective fiction.
For an exhibition about everyday writing, Selim assembled an eclectic collection of notebooks, shopping lists, postcards, and handwritten signs.
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