syncretic
sync·re·tic
adjective
1.
relating to a historical tendency for a language to reduce its use of inflections
- “modern English is a syncretic language”
2.
of or characterized by syncretism
Origin
Back-formation from syncretism: by surface analysis, syncret(ize) + -ic.
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