heterodoxy

Other forms of heterodoxy

plural

heterodoxies·

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 heterodoxy

What does heterodoxy mean?

heterodoxy 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 heterodoxy?

heterodoxy has 5 syllables: het-e-ro-dox-y. The stress falls on "het". In IPA it is /ˈhɛtɚəˌdɑksi/.

What is another word for heterodoxy?

Close synonyms include unorthodoxy, heresy, 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 heterodoxy a common word?

heterodoxy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with heterodoxy?

2 words rhyme with heterodoxy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.