Heterodoxy vs Unorthodoxy - What's the difference?
heterodoxy | unorthodoxy | Synonyms |
The quality of being heterodox.
A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
Lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 15, author=Ken Johnson, title=Striking When the Spirit Was Hot, work=New York Times
, passage=Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy , a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades. }}
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 13, author=Geoffrey Goodman, title=Aubrey Morris, work=The Guardian
, passage=It was indeed Aubrey's principal hobby, and allowed him to air his unorthodoxies .}}
Heterodoxy is a synonym of unorthodoxy.
As nouns the difference between heterodoxy and unorthodoxy
is that heterodoxy is the quality of being heterodox while unorthodoxy is lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox.heterodoxy
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(heterodoxies)- A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.
Antonyms
* orthodoxyunorthodoxy
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