'ecumenism' definitions:
Definition of 'ecumenism'
(from WordNet)
noun
A movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) [syn: ecumenism, oecumenism]
noun
(Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity [syn: ecumenism, ecumenicism, ecumenicalism]
Synonyms of 'ecumenism'
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- addition,
- affiliation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- amalgamation,
- Anschluss,
- assimilation,
- association,
- bipartisanship,
- blend,
- blending,
- breadth,
- broad gauge,
- broad-mindedness,
- broadness,
- cabal,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- composition,
- concert,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- cosmopolitanism,
- duet,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenicity,
- embodiment,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- fusion,
- harmony,
- hookup,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- integration,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- junction,
- junta,
- large-mindedness,
- latitude,
- league,
- marriage,
- mass action,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- noninsularity,
- octet,
- package,
- package deal,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- reciprocity,
- septet,
- sextet,
- solidarity,
- solidification,
- spacious mind,
- symbiosis,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- synthesis,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- tie-up,
- trio,
- triumvirate,
- troika,
- unbigotedness,
- unhideboundness,
- unification,
- union,
- united action,
- unparochialism,
- unprovincialism,
- wedding,
- wide-mindedness