Meanings
plural unorthodoxies
- Lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox
It was indeed Aubrey's principal hobby, and allowed him to air his unorthodoxies.
2009 January 13, Geoffrey Goodman, “Aubrey Morris”, in The Guardian1 more example
Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy, a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades.
2008 February 15, Ken Johnson, “Striking When the Spirit Was Hot”, in New York TimesSynonyms: heterodoxy [inexact?], heterodoxy
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox
More synonyms by meaning
nounany opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
nouna belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishorthodoxy
- Englishunorthodoxy
Translations
Finnish epäortodoksisuus
- epäortodoksisuuslack of orthodoxy
French inorthodoxie
- inorthodoxielack of orthodoxy
Polish nieortodoksja
- nieortodoksjalack of orthodoxy
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unorthodoxy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unorthodoxy
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