heterodox

From Ancient Greek ἑτερόδοξος (heteródoxos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛt.(ə.)ɹəˌdɒks/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛt.ɚ.əˌdɑks/

heterodox (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but (usually) not conflicting with that religion's established beliefs and therefore not heretical.

   Synonyms: inorthodox, nonorthodox, unorthodox

   Hyponyms: heretical, nonheretical

   Most Christian denominations consider each other heterodox.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XVI, in Wuthering Heights‎^[1]:

     Do you believe such people are happy in the other world, sir? {...} I declined answering Mrs. Dean’s question, which struck me as something heterodox.

   • 2024 November 8, Cameron Joseph, “Democrats begin soul-searching – and finger-pointing – after devastating loss”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎^[2]:

     [Podcast host] Mr. [Joe] Rogan, who leans right but holds fairly heterodox political views, interviewed Mr. Trump and endorsed him on the election’s eve.

• orthodox

• heterodoxly
• heterodoxness
• heterodoxic
• heterodoxical

• heterodoxy
• hetero-
• heretical

Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦeː.tə.roːˈdɔks/

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• Hyphenation: he‧te‧ro‧dox
• Rhymes: -ɔks

heterodox (not comparable)

1. heterodox (deviating from some orthodoxy, whether religious or ideological)

• orthodox

• heterodoxie
• onorthodox

heterodox m or n (feminine singular heterodoxă, masculine plural heterodocși, feminine and neuter plural heterodoxe)

1. alternative form of eterodox