Heterodoxy

Definitions: Heterodoxy

Heterodoxy

Noun

1. Any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position.

2. The quality of being unorthodox.

Date "heterodoxy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)

Synonyms: Heterodoxy

Synonyms: heresy (n), unorthodoxy (n). (additional references)

Antonym: orthodoxy (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Heterodoxy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Error	Heresy; (heterodoxy); hallucination; (insanity); false light; (fallacy of vision); dream; (fancy); fable; (untruth); bias; (misjudgment); misleading; Verb:
Heterodoxy	Noun: heterodoxy; error; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism; (irreligion).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Heterodoxy

English words defined with "heterodoxy": Cacodoxy. (references)

Specialty definitions using "heterodoxy": ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Heterodoxy

Domain	Title
Books	Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe: Studies on the Traite Des Trois Imposteurs (Archives Internationales D'hi (reference) Light and Longing: Silva and Dario: Modernism and Religious Heterodoxy (American University Studies. Series Ii, Romance Languages and Literature, V) (reference) Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy (reference) Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Dissent in India (Religion and Society, 23) (reference) The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Heterodoxy

Author	Quotation
William Warburton	Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Heterodoxy

"Heterodoxy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heterodoxy" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	24	71,196

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Heterodoxy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
heterodoxy	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Heterodoxy

Language		Translations for "heterodoxy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏إبتداع (fabrication, innovation). (various references)

Bulgarian		ерес (heresy, misbelief, whoredom). (various references)

Czech		jinovìrnost. (various references)

Farsi		زندقه , ارتداد (Apostasy, Heresy). (various references)

French		hétérodoxie. (various references)

German		heterodoxie. (various references)

Greek		ετεροδοξία (heterodox, nonconformity). (various references)

Hungarian		tévhit (misbelief). (various references)

Italian		eterodossia. (various references)

Manx		sou-chredjue. (various references)

Pig Latin		eterodoxyhay

Portuguese		heterodoxo (unorthodox). (various references)

Russian		неортодоксальность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		krivoverje. (various references)

Spanish		heterodoxia. (various references)

Ukranian		іновірство, �"ресь (heresy, misbelief), �"ретична ідея. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuyết không chính thống, tính chất không chính thống tư tưởng ngược chính thống. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Heterodoxy

Misspellings
	"Heterodoxy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heterdox, heterdoxy, hetorodox, hetrodoxy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Heterodoxy"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "heterodoxy" (pronounced he"terudÄ'ksē)
6	-u d Ä' k s ē	orthodoxy.
3	-k s ē	apoplexy, boxy, doxie, doxy, epoxy, folksy, foxy, galaxy, hydroxy, maxi, Moxie, Nixie, oxy, pixie, proxy, sexy, taxi, waxy.
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Anagrams: Heterodoxy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-o-o-r-t-x-y"
	-1 letter: heterodox.
	-2 letters: exhorted.
	-4 letters: dehort, dexter, dextro, ethoxy, exhort, hereto, hetero, hooted, hooter, hotrod, rooted, teredo, theory.
	-5 letters: deoxy, deter, detox, doeth, dorty, doter, erode, ether, exert, heder, hexed, hexer, hoody, hooey, hooty, horde, hydro, oohed, ortho, other, oxeye, oxter, redox, redye, reedy, rodeo, rooty, there, thoro, three, throe, toyed, toyer, treed, trode, tyred.
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