Heterodox

Definition: Heterodox

Heterodox

Adjective

1. Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards.

Date "heterodox" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1692. (references)

Synonyms: Heterodox

Synonyms: dissident (adj), heretical (adj). (additional references)

Heterodox literally means pertaining to "other" doctrines or "other" worship. It is contrasted with "orthodox". In Eastern Orthodoxy, the term is used to refer to Christian churches not belonging to the Eastern Orthodox communion and holding doctrines different than Orthodox Christianity, but not as different or as clearly in error as heresy. The word heterodoxy is also used by some other Christians to refer to incorrect religious doctrine.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dissent	Sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.
Error	Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.
Heterodoxy	Adjective: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular; (lay).
Incredulity	Unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever., pyrrhonist; heretic; (heterodox).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Heterodox

English words defined with "heterodox": Hetero-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "heterodox": Sunnites. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Heterodox" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (heterodox), Hungarian (unorthodox), Swedish (heterodox).

Domain	Title
Books	Beyond Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory (reference) Essays in the History of Heterodox Political Economy (reference) Heterodox Economic Theories: True or False? (reference) Heterodox Views of Finance and Cycles in the Spanish Economy (Alternative Voices in Contemporary Economics) (reference) Jesus, Shelley, and Malthus : or, Pious poverty and heterodox happiness (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		There has been an upsurge of apocalyptic teaching in orthodox as well as heterodox millennial sects as the year 2000 approaches. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	President Cardoso was elected with the support of a heterodox alliance of his own center-left Social Democratic Party, the PSDB, and two center-right parties, the Liberal Front Party (PFL) and the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB). Brazil's largest party, the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), joined Cardoso's governing coalition after the election, as did the center-right PPB, the Brazilian Progressive Party, in 1996. Party loyalty is weak, and deputies and senators who belong to the parties comprising the government coalition do not always vote with the government. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Heterodox" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heterodox" is used about 19 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	19	80,337

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.

Language		Translations for "heterodox"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		неправоверен. (various references)

Czech		jinovìrný. (various references)

Farsi		مرتد (Apostate, Heretic, Pervert, Relapse, Renegade), گمراه (Aberrant, Amiss, Astray, Devious, Perverse), زندیق , دارای مذهب وعقایدی مخالف عقایدعموم . (various references)

Finnish		eriuskolainen (dissenter, nonconformist). (various references)

German		heterodox. (various references)

Greek		ετερόδοξοσ (dissentient), ετεροδοξία (heterodoxy, nonconformity). (various references)

Hungarian		tévhitû. (various references)

Italian		eterodosso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ヘッディング開始 (chemical ooze, head, head coach, head piece, head sliding, head up, head voice, headgear, headhunter, head-hunting, heading, headlight, headlock, headphone, headspin, heavy, heavy metal, heavy smoker, hedonism, hetero, heterogeneous, heterosis, recruiting professionals from other companies, slime, sludge, start of heading). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヘテロドックス . (various references)

Manx		sou-chredjuagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eterodoxhay

Portuguese		hetero-. (various references)

Romanian		eterodox. (various references)

Russian		неортодоксальный (unorthodox). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jeretički (heretical). (various references)

Spanish		heterodoxo (otherwise-minded, unorthodox). (various references)

Swedish		kättersk (heretical, hetetical). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งไม่เห็น�"้วยกับความคิ�"ความเชื่อทางศาสนา (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		inançlara karşı, düzene karşı, aykırı (anomalous, anti-, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, contradictious, contradictory, counter, crossways, crosswise, gainst, impolitic, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, thwart, transverse). (various references)

Ukranian		іновірний, �"ретичний (heretical). (various references)

Vietnamese		không chính thống (unorthodox). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "heterodox": heterodoxies, heterodoxy. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Heterodox" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heterdox, Heterosoc, Heterotis, hetorodox. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "heterodox" (pronounced he'terudÄ'ks)
5	-u d Ä' k s	orthodox, paradox, unorthodox.
4	-d Ä' k s	boondocks.
3	-Ä' k s	aftershocks, boombox, breadbox, deadlocks, detox, equinox, feedstocks, flintlocks, gearbox, hollyhocks, icebox, jukebox, mailbox, matchbox, matchlocks, padlocks, peacocks, roadblocks, saltbox, Sandbox, skybox, smallpox, soapbox, spacewalks, tinderbox.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-o-o-r-t-x"
	-1 letter: exhorted.
	-3 letters: dehort, dexter, dextro, exhort, hereto, hetero, hooted, hooter, hotrod, rooted, teredo.
	-4 letters: deter, detox, doeth, doter, erode, ether, exert, heder, hexed, hexer, horde, oohed, ortho, other, oxter, redox, rodeo, there, thoro, three, throe, treed, trode.
	-5 letters: deer, deet, dere, doer, door, dore, dote, doth, dree, heed, herd, here, hero, hoed, hoer, hood.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-o-o-r-t-x"
	+1 letter: heterodoxy.
	+3 letters: heterodoxies.
	+5 letters: neoorthodoxies.
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