Sentence:  Yet such defects are trivial compared with his grasp of early modern city-dwelling as a <WSD>heteroglot</WSD> assemblage of discontinuities, as a sensory overload out of which intimations of order fleetingly emerge, as a state of being in which consciousness and identity are continually shaped and reshaped via interaction, in which solitary and collective personhood are fused in unstable synthesis. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.