Meanings
syncratic1
- not comparablebusinessOf a decision, made jointly instead of individually.
[…]autonomous decisions that are equally likely to be independently taken by either of the partners are in the middle of the triangle and truly syncratic (or joint) decisions are in the outer-right corner of the triangle.
2017, Morris Altman, Handbook of Behavioural Economics and Smart Decision-Making, page 3591 more example
The focused interviews indicated that through the life-cycle stages, the upper-middle-class families made syncratic decisions, the lower-middle-class families made syncratic and partially syncratic decisions, and the upper-lower-class families made syncratic, partially syncratic, and autonomic decisions.
1969 August, Richard H. Evans, Norman R. Smith, “A Selected Paradigm of Family Behavior”, in Journal of Marriage and Family, volume 31, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 512–517
syncratic2
- misspellingMisspelling of syncretic.
syncratic3
- not comparableOf or relating to syncraticism.
Origin
- Ancient Greekσυγκρᾱτικός“mixed together”
- Englishsyncratic
From Ancient Greek συγκρᾱτικός (sunkrātikós, “mixed together”). By surface analysis, syn- + cratic.
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