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)

1. Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from orthodoxy, or the norm, but not sufficiently different to be called heretical.

   The Church of Alexandria in Egypt is considered heterodox, not heretical.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XVI:

     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.

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 (aylapʿaṙ)

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

  Mandarin: 異端的 (zh), 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)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French hétérodoxe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɦeː.tə.roːˈdɔks/

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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)

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

Antonyms

• orthodox

Related terms

• heterodoxie
• onorthodox

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Romanian

Adjective

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

1. 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