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" Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
William Warburton

Meaning of "heterodoxy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HETERODOXY

ˈhetərədɒksɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETERODOXY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterodoxy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HETERODOXY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Heterodoxy

Heterodoxy in a religious sense means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position". Under this definition, heterodoxy is similar to unorthodoxy, while the adjective "heterodox" could be applied to a dissident. Heterodoxy is also an ecclesiastical term of art, defined in various ways by different religions and churches. For example, in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches heterodoxy may describe beliefs that differ from strictly orthodox views but that fall short of heresy.

Definition of heterodoxy in the English dictionary

The definition of heterodoxy in the dictionary is a variance from established, orthodox, or accepted doctrines or beliefs.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETERODOXY

alkoxy · boxy · cacodoxy · doxie · doxy · epoxy · ethoxy · foxie · foxy · hydroxy · methoxy · moxie · neo-orthodoxy · orthodoxy · paradoxy · polyhydroxy · poxy · proxy · trihydroxy · unorthodoxy

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETERODOXY

heteroclitous · heterocont · heterocycle · heterocyclic · heterocyst · heterocystous · heterodactyl · heterodactylous · heterodont · heterodox · heteroduplex · heterodyne · heteroecious · heteroecism · heteroflexible · heterogamete · heterogametic · heterogamety · heterogamous · heterogamy

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETERODOXY

active galaxy · apoplexy · cataplexy · epitaxy · flaxy · galaxy · jaxy · mastopexy · mixy · monohydroxy · Munchausen by proxy · Munchausen´s syndrome by proxy · pixy · prexy · radio galaxy · sexy · spiral galaxy · the Galaxy · unsexy · waxy

Synonyms and antonyms of heterodoxy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterodoxy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETERODOXY

Find out the translation of heterodoxy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of heterodoxy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heterodoxy» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

异端
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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heterodoxia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

heterodoxy
510 millions of speakers
hi

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heterodoxy
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الزندقه
280 millions of speakers
ru

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неортодоксальность
278 millions of speakers
pt

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heterodoxia
270 millions of speakers
bn

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প্রচলিত মতের বিরোধিতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

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hétérodoxie
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Heterodoksi
190 millions of speakers
de

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Heterodoxie
180 millions of speakers
ja

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異教
130 millions of speakers
ko

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이단
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Heterodoksi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự trái với ý kiến
80 millions of speakers
ta

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heterodoxy
75 millions of speakers
mr

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उत्पात
75 millions of speakers
tr

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heterodoksisinden
70 millions of speakers
it

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eterodossia
65 millions of speakers
pl

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innowierstwo
50 millions of speakers
uk

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неортодоксальність
40 millions of speakers
ro

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heterodoxie
30 millions of speakers
el

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ετεροδοξία
15 millions of speakers
af

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heterodoxie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterodoxy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterodoksi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterodoxy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETERODOXY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of heterodoxy
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heterodoxy

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QUOTES WITH «HETERODOXY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word heterodoxy.
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William Warburton
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETERODOXY»

Discover the use of heterodoxy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterodoxy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China attempts to define the efforts of groups and individuals to propose alternatives to the formidable socioethical orthodoxy of China's heritage.
Kwang-Ching Liu, Richard Hon-Chun Shek, 2004
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Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940
An account of heterodoxy, the club for unorthodox women that flourished in Greenwich Village from 1912 through the 30s.
Judith Schwarz, 1982
3
The Intellectual Consequences of Religious Heterodoxy, 1600-1750
Challenging the common assumption that religious heterodoxy was a prelude to the secularisation of thought, this volume explores the variety of relations between heterodox theology, political thought, moral and natural philosophy and ...
Sarah Mortimer, John Robertson, 2012
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Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion
Readers of this book will find fresh and exciting accounts of a phenomenon common to both science and religion: deviation from orthodox belief. How is heterodoxy to be measured?
John Hedley Brooke, Ian Maclean, 2005
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Heterodoxy In The Sikh Tradition
History of Udāsī Sect in Sikhism.
Sulakhan Singh, 1999
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Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in ...
Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed.
Silvia Berti, Françoise Charles-Daubert, R.H. Popkin, 1996
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The Boxmaker's Revenge: 'orthodoxy', 'heterodoxy', and the ...
By narrating a protracted and frequently bizarre altercation between a London minister and a member of his flock, this book provides a vivid picture of puritanism at the parish level in early Stuart England, and places this dispute in the ...
Peter Lake, 2001
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Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: A Miscellany
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd, 2010
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Orthodoxy to Heterodoxy: William Butler Yeats's Spiritual ...
In this study, I examine three of Yeats's early dramatic works, The Countess Cathleen (1892), The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) and The Shadowy Waters (1900), and explore how his transformation is evident through elements of the natural and ...
Debbi Jo McMillan, 2008
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The beautiful, novel, and strange: aesthetics and heterodoxy
"This is an important book. The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange combines the pleasures of concretely detailed scholarship and intellectual polemic.
Ronald Paulson, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETERODOXY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heterodoxy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lindsey Graham charmingly, succinctly explains why the GOP is …
When Meyers asked about Graham's belief in human-influenced climate change, the senator laid on the charm and trotted out the heterodoxy. "I made a D in ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
2
The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
... of contemporary heterodoxy. But some men and women really did think that through the labour churches the meaning of primitive Christianity ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
3
Commentary: Can Indonesian Islamists resist the allure
The conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy within Islam in the Indonesian archipelago has been going on for centuries (it goes way back to ... «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
4
Thai-Vietnam strategic partnership, lure of ISIS in Indonesia, China's …
The conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy within Islam in the Indonesian archipelago has been going on for centuries (it goes way back to ... «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
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Reader thanks writer for column
That isolation (along with the difficulty in travel back then) allowed those two strains of heterodoxy, civic religion and toleration, to flourish. «Victoria Advocate, Jul 15»
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Colby Cosh: Rachel Notley striving to be like the old Bob Rae, not …
Notley also speculated last year about urban rent controls, which would have been a much uglier heterodoxy, but she has retreated altogether ... «National Post, Jul 15»
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Putin Imposes Simplicity on Complex World
The view that individual opportunity and heterodoxy should be subordinated to overall predictability empowered the political elite to claim ... «The Moscow Times, Jul 15»
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Dangers lurk in Putin's simple obsession
The view that individual opportunity and heterodoxy should be subordinated to overall predictability empowered the political elite to claim ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
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On Jim Webb For President
And his ideological heterodoxy and refusal to comport to anybody's doctrine makes it unclear where he stands in a Democratic field that has so ... «Blog for Iowa, Jul 15»
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In search of Jan Hus
He was banned, but not from a position of heterodoxy, rather from a point of view of causing disruption to society. He wasn't, for example, ... «Radio Prague, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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