orthodoxy
Meaning of orthodoxy
noun
- authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice.
monetarist orthodoxy
he challenged many of the established orthodoxies
- the whole community of Orthodox Jews or Orthodox Christians.
she was brought up in orthodoxy
mid 17th century: via late Latin from late Greek orthodoxia ‘sound doctrine’, from orthodoxos (see orthodox).
Information about orthodoxy
- It is a name.
- The plural form of orthodoxy is: orthodoxies.
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Hyphenation of orthodoxy
or-tho-doxy
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- orthodoxy is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
orthodoxy synonyms
Meaning a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group:
Meaning an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof:
Meaning a formal declaration by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law that someone is guilty of a criminal offence:
Meaning a system of religious belief; a faith:
Meaning a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true:
Meaning a statement of the beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions:
Meaning a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained:
Meaning the ability to see something or to be seen from a particular place:
Meaning a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action:
Meaning a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy:
Meaning the occupation, profession, or work of a teacher:
Meaning the actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it:
Translation of orthodoxy
- Italian: ortodossia
Words that rhyme with orthodoxy
doxy, adoxy, paradoxy, amidoxy, glycidoxy, Codoxy, Orthodoxy, antiorthodoxy, cacodoxy, heterodoxy, hyperorthodoxy, hyperothodoxy, iodoxy, neoorthodoxy, pseudodoxy, ultraorthodoxy, unorthodoxy, trihydoxy
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