0 Methods, beliefs, ideas, etc. that are eclectic combine whatever seem the best or most useful things from many different areas or systems, rather than following a single system: --
an eclectic taste in literature
1 consisting of different types, methods, styles, etc.: --
It was an eclectic mix of our ethnic foods and traditional Thanksgiving food.
Other members of the faculty also have eclectic backgrounds, ranging from performance to purely academic.
So that my taste was, on one hand, refined and defined, but eclectic on the other.
The organization represented an eclectic group of socialists who widely disagreed as to socialist strategy.
It is these 'eclectic' discourses that feed the city's civic culture: those ceremonies, customs and codes that delineate appropriate public behaviour.
Consequently, one studies life with the means available, at the cost of transmitting impure, eclectic, or frankly incoherent metaphysical opinions.
The methodological and theoretical inspiration behind this broad agenda is eclectic.
Indeed, in his extremely diverse and eclectic output, relatively straight-ahead jazz appears as the point of departure and constant reference.
None of which is to claim that stars are alive, a common misinterpretation of such an eclectic stance.