Meanings
plural heterodoxists
- Someone who dissents from an orthodoxy; an iconoclast.
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The heterodoxists bill themselves as skeptics who are immune to the trappings of tribalism, partisanship, and the status quo. They alone can see through all the cant and pieties and get to the real truth. They believe that only those with an appropriate loathing of wokeism and a sneering contempt for consensus can see things for what they really are. They dislike elites and are suspicious of experts.
2024 March 15, Radley Balko, “The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers”, in The UnPopulist, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2026Antonyms: orthodoxist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who dissents from an orthodoxy; an iconoclast.
Origin
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