different between heterodoxy vs heterodox

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (heterodoxía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t???d?ksi/

Noun

heterodoxy (countable and uncountable, plural heterodoxies)

1. The quality of being heterodox.
2. A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 288:

     A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.

Antonyms

• orthodoxy

Translations

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (heteródoxos), from ?????? (héteros, “other, another, different”) + ???? (dóxa, “opinion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?t???d?ks/

Adjective

heterodox (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from orthodoxy, or the norm, but not sufficiently different to be called heretical.

   The Church of Alexandria in Egypt is considered heterodox, not heretical.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:

     Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? {...} I declined answering Mrs. Dean’s question, which struck me as something heterodox.

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxy
• hetero-
• heretical

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.t?.ro??d?ks/
• Hyphenation: he?te?ro?dox
• Rhymes: -?ks

Adjective

heterodox (not comparable)

1. heterodox (deviating from some orthodoxy, whether religious or ideological)

Inflection

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxie
• onorthodox

Romanian

Adjective

heterodox m or n (feminine singular heterodox?, masculine plural heterodoc?i, feminine and neuter plural heterodoxe)

1. Alternative form of eterodox

Declension