orthodoxy

Main Entry:
orthodoxy [awr-thuh-dok-see]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dogma
Synonyms: belief, doctrine, faith, religion, tradition
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Orthodoxy.
Category: 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers
Synonyms:
-nouns
orthodoxy; strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith; truth; soundness of doctrine., Christianity, Christianism; Catholicism, Catholicity; "the faith once delivered to the saints"; heterodoxy; iconoclasm., The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians., canons (belief); thirty nine articles; Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed; Church Catechism; textuary.
-adjectives
orthodox, sound, strict, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic; true.
-phrases
of the true faith.
Antonyms: heterodoxy
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Main Entry: conformity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: compliance
Synonyms: acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness
Antonyms: difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal
Main Entry: faith
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief in a higher being; community of believers
Synonyms: canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, doxy, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, piousness, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theism, theology, worship
Antonyms: agnosticism, denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, unbelief
Main Entry: religion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief in divinity; system of beliefs
Synonyms: church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, higher power, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, pietism, piety, prayer, preference, religiosity, rites, ritual, sacrifice, sanctification, sect, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, standards, superstition, theology, veneration
Antonyms: agnosticism, atheism, disbelief
Main Entry: conservatism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition to change
Synonyms: conservativeness, moderation, orthodoxy, preservation, reactionaryism, traditionalism, unprogessiveness
Related Words
Main Entry: faith
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, credulous, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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Concept: Conformity.
Category: 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES
Synonyms:
-nouns
conformity, conformance; observance; habituation., naturalization; conventionality (custom); agreement., example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation., standard, model, pattern (prototype)., rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.
-verbs
conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself to; rub off corners., be regular; move in a groove; follow the rules, observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track (habit); keep one in countenance., exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance; elucidate, explain.
-adjectives
conformable to rule; regular; according to regulation, according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en regle, selon Ies, reges, well regulated, orderly; symmetric., conventional (customary); of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday., in the order of the day; naturalized.
-adverbs
conformably; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar, instar omnium; more solito, more majorum., for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma, for form's sake, by the card., invariably, (uniformly) [more]., for example, for instance; exempli gratia; e. g.; inter alia.
-phrases
cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Erasmus]; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down" [Japanese saying];
Antonyms: nonconformity
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