dogma

a fixed doctrine or belief

Roots

  • dogm: opinion or doctrine
  • dox: opinion, belief, or seeming

Other words with the dogm root

  • dogmatic: asserting opinions as unquestionable truth
  • dogmatism: rigid attachment to doctrine or opinion
  • dogmatist: person who states opinions as unquestionable truth

Other words with the dox root

  • dogmatic: asserting opinions as unquestionable truth
  • dogmatism: rigid attachment to doctrine or opinion
  • dogmatist: person who states opinions as unquestionable truth
  • heterodox: departing from accepted belief or doctrine
  • heterodoxy: departure from accepted belief or doctrine
  • orthodox: conforming to accepted or traditional belief
  • orthodoxy: accepted or traditional belief system

Dogma is doctrine hardened into something treated as settled.

The class questioned the old dogma instead of accepting it as untouchable.

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