heresy

Other forms of heresy

plural

heresies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about heresy

What does heresy mean?

heresy means "any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heresy?

heresy has 3 syllables: her-e-sy. The stress falls on "her". In IPA it is /ˈhɛɹəsi/.

What is another word for heresy?

Close synonyms include unorthodoxy, heterodoxy, unorthodoxy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heresy a common word?

heresy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.