Meanings
plural heterodoxies
- uncountableThe quality of being heterodox.
Antonyms: unorthodoxy, unorthodoxy, orthodoxy, homodoxy, orthodoxy
- countableA heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
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.
1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 337Antonyms: orthodoxy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being heterodox.
nounA heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἑτεροδοξία
- Englishheterodoxy
From Ancient Greek ἑτεροδοξία (heterodoxía).
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian друговерие, ерес
- друговерие (drugoverie)quality of being heterodox
- ерес (eres)heterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Catalan heterodòxia
- heterodòxiaquality of being heterodox
Dutch heterodoxie, onrechtszekerheid
- heterodoxiequality of being heterodox
- onrechtszekerheidquality of being heterodox
- ketterijheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- dwaalleerheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Finnish heterodoksia, heterodoksisuus
- heterodoksiaquality of being heterodox
- heterodoksisuusquality of being heterodox
- heterodoksiaheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- heterodoksisuusheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
French hétérodoxie, hétérodoxie
- hétérodoxiequality of being heterodox
- hétérodoxieheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
German Andersgläubigkeit, Irrglaube
- Andersgläubigkeitheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- Irrglaubeheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- Heterodoxieheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Irish heitreadocsacht
- heitreadocsachtquality of being heterodox
Italian eterodossia
- eterodossiaquality of being heterodox
Japanese 異端, ヘテロドキシー
- 異端 (itan)quality of being heterodox
- ヘテロドキシー (heterodokishī)quality of being heterodox
- 異端 (itan)heterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- ヘテロドキシー (heterodokishī)heterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Polish heterodoksja
- heterodoksjaheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Spanish heterodoxia
- heterodoxiaquality of being heterodox
Swedish irrlärighet, heterodoxi
- irrlärighetquality of being heterodox
- heterodoxiquality of being heterodox
- irrläraheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
- heterodoxiheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Turkish aykırılık, heterodoks
- aykırılıkquality of being heterodox
- heterodoksheterodox belief, creed, or teaching
Welsh anuniongrededd
- anuniongrededdquality of being heterodox
Cite this entry
heterodoxy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heterodoxy
“heterodoxy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heterodoxy. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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