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heterodoxy

[het-er-uh-dok-see] / ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒk si /




NOUN
materialism
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“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2019

"I'm hearing, 'if you don't believe her claim, you are re-victimising her'. Since scepticism of a claim is heterodoxy, people will accept a claim either blindly or just to avoid being ostracised."

From BBC Oct. 3, 2018

Kanye has long worked with songwriters — something that, because it’s perceived as heterodoxy, is rarely discussed openly.

From New York Times Jun. 25, 2018

Self-sacrifice was exalted in all fascist and revolutionary movements, but in the Legion, martyrdom was virtually required, accompanied by theological heterodoxy.

From Slate Feb. 21, 2017

Readings from the other Fathers followed; and then some days were allowed for private discussion, before drawing up the confession of faith which was to set right the heterodoxy of the Latrocinium.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal

But there are all sorts of complexities and heterodoxies that are suffocated by uncomplicated embrace.

From New York Times May 16, 2022

To some degree, “populism” is another word for heterodoxies that seem doomed to fail.

From Economist Jul. 20, 2017

I stayed because I was incredibly curious and thought at least I could work on my novel, a Western set in “the American subconscious,” a Jungian wonderland of heterodoxies.

From Salon May 31, 2015

Who will be courageous enough to confront the public with such brave heterodoxies as “Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing”? The Intellectual Dark Web, that’s who.

From Slate

Transcendental freedom of speculation, all manner of heterodoxies, and the individual queernesses of those whom the world calls "cranks," had produced a general tolerance.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)




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