heterodox
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἑτερόδοξος (heteródoxos), from ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɛtɛɹədɒks/
Adjective
heterodox (not comparable)
- 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:
- 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.
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Translations
of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings that are different from the norm
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɦeː.tə.roːˈdɔks/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: he‧te‧ro‧dox
- Rhymes: -ɔks
Adjective
heterodox (not comparable)
- heterodox (deviating from some orthodoxy, whether religious or ideological)
Inflection
| Inflection of heterodox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | heterodox | |||
| inflected | heterodoxe | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | heterodox | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | heterodoxe | ||
| n. sing. | heterodox | |||
| plural | heterodoxe | |||
| definite | heterodoxe | |||
| partitive | heterodox | |||
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Romanian
Adjective
heterodox m or n (feminine singular heterodoxă, masculine plural heterodocși, feminine and neuter plural heterodoxe)
- Alternative form of eterodox
Declension
Declension of heterodox
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | heterodox | heterodoxă | heterodocși | heterodoxe | ||
| definite | heterodoxul | heterodoxa | heterodocșii | heterodoxele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | heterodox | heterodoxe | heterodocși | heterodoxe | ||
| definite | heterodoxului | heterodoxei | heterodocșilor | heterodoxelor | |||
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