heterodox

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛtɛɹədɒks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

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.

Antonyms

• orthodox

Derived terms

• heterodoxly
• heterodoxness

Related terms

• heterodoxy
• hetero-
• heretical

Translations

of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings that are different from the norm

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: այլափառ (aylapʻaṙ)

• Basque: heterodoxo
• Belarusian: неартадаксальны (njeartadaksalʹny)
• Bulgarian: неправоверен (nepravoveren), еретичен (bg) (eretičen)
• Catalan: heterodox (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 異端的 / 异端的 (zh) (yìduān de)

• Finnish: heterodoksinen, eriuskoinen (fi)
• French: hétérodoxe (fr)
• Galician: heterodoxo m
• German: heterodox (de)
• Greek: αλλόδοξος (el) (allódoxos)
• Irish: heitreadocsach f
• Italian: eterodosso (it), dissidente (it) m, dissenziente (it) m, eretico (it) m, scismatico m
• Japanese: 異端な (ja) (いたんな, itan na)
• Portuguese: heterodoxo (pt)
• Russian: неортодокса́льный (ru) (neortodoksálʹnyj)
• Spanish: heterodoxo (es)
• Swedish: irrlärig (sv), heterodox (sv)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• nonorthogonal
• outside the box

 

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦeː.tə.roːˈdɔks/

• Audio:

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

Adjective

heterodox (not comparable)

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

Declension

Declension 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

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxie
• onorthodox

Romanian

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of eterodox

Declension

		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