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Unorthodoxy

Definition: Unorthodoxy

Unorthodoxy

Noun

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

2. A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion.

3. The quality of being unorthodox.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unorthodoxy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)


Synonyms: Unorthodoxy

Synonyms: heresy (n), heterodoxy (n). (additional references)
Antonym: orthodoxy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unorthodoxy

English words defined with "unorthodoxy": nonconformityunconventionality. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Unorthodoxy

"Unorthodoxy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unorthodoxy" is used about 12 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unorthodoxy

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unorthodoxy

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unorthodoxy

Language Translations for "unorthodoxy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

unorthodoxe. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tévhitűség, liberalizmus (breadth of view, broad-mindedness, liberalism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orthodoxyunay

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất không chính thống. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Unorthodoxy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-h-n-o-o-o-r-t-u-x-y"

-1 letter: unorthodox.

-2 letters: orthodoxy.

-3 letters: orthodox.

-4 letters: drouthy, orotund, outdoor.

-5 letters: drouth, honour, hotrod, rhyton, rotund, thorny, thoron, unhood, unroot, untrod.

 Words containing the letters "d-h-n-o-o-o-r-t-u-x-y"
 

+1 letter: unorthodoxly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unorthodoxy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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