syncretism
The hybridization thesis argues that cultures incorporate elements from each other, generating syncretic forms of cultural life.
These elements point to syncretic architectural practices.
The idea is to incorporate the towers into a new syncretic centre of unified Hindu, Buddhist and Tantric worship.
Many different strains of humanist thought came together in a syncretic ferment.
Nevertheless, the new political programme was essentially syncretic, with demagogic and excessively ambitious ideas.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Mixing and mixtures
amalgam
be neither one thing nor the otheridiom
blend
blend in/blend into something
blender
blitz
crossed
decoction
emulsion
guaraná
homogeneous mixture
meld
methylate
mingle
mosaic
mush
saturated solution
scramble
substance
synthesis