Heterodoxy [het-er-uh-dok-see]
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Heterodoxy. [Sectarianism.]
Category: 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers
Synonyms:
-nouns
heterodoxy; error; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism (irreligion)., bigotry (obstinacy); fanaticism, iconoclasm; hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism; anthropomorphism; idolatry; superstition (credulity); dissent., sectarism, sectarianism; noncomformity; secularism; syncretism, religious sects., protestantism, Arianism, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism, Erastianism, Calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, Puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism, High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Free Church; ultramontanism; papism, papistry; monkery; papacy; Angelicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery, Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church., paganism, heathenism, ethicism; mythology; polytheism, ditheism, tritheism; dualism; heathendom., Judaism, Gentilism, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Babism, Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism, Brahimism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Hylotheism, Mormonism; Christian Science., heretic, antichrist; pagan, heathen; painim, paynim; giaour; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator., bigot (obstinacy); fanatic, abdal, iconoclast., latitudinarian, Deist, Theist, Unitarian; positivist, materialist; Homolousian, Homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian; skeptic., schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror; Huguenot, Protestant; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker, Catholic, Roman, Catholic, Romanist, ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan., Jew, Hebrew, Rabbinist, Rabbist; Babist, Motazilite, Shiah, Sunni, Wahabi, Mohammedian, Mussulman, Moslem, Muslim, Osmanli; Brahmin, Brahman; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi, Gymnosophist, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Sadducee, Rosicrucian
-adjectives
heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular, (lay) [more]., pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim; pantheistic, polytheistic., Judaical, Muslim, Brahminical, Buddhist; Romish, Protestant, Catholic, Roman Catholic., bigoted (prejudiced), (obstinate) [more]; superstitious (credulous); fanatical; idolatrous; visionary (imagainative).
-phrases
"slave to no sect" [Pope]; superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur [Cicero].
Antonyms: orthodoxy
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Main Entry: dissidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difference of opinion
Synonyms: bad vibes, contention, disaccord, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, dispeace, dispute, dissension, dissent, feud, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, rupture, schism, sour note, strife, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: agreement, harmony, peace
Main Entry: heresy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters
Synonyms: agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, paganism, revisionism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sin
Antonyms: orthodoxy
Main Entry: nonconformity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, behavior different from most
Synonyms: bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation
Antonyms: compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy
Main Entry: materialism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: desire for possessions
Synonyms: heterodoxy, physicism, pragmatism, utilitarianism
Antonyms: spiritualism
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