heterodoxy

departure from accepted belief or doctrine

Roots

  • dox: opinion, belief, or seeming
  • hetero-: other or different

Other words with the dox root

  • dogma: a fixed doctrine or belief
  • 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
  • orthodox: conforming to accepted or traditional belief
  • orthodoxy: accepted or traditional belief system

Heterodoxy is other-opinion as a position or tradition.

What began as heterodoxy became standard practice a decade later.

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