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doctrine - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | doctrine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opinion; principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, attitude, axiom, basic, belief, canon, concept, convention, conviction, creed, declaration, dogma, fundamental, gospel, indoctrination, instruction, position, precept, pronouncement, propaganda, proposition, regulation, rule, statement, teaching, tenet, tradition, credenda, implantation, inculcation, universal law, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, skepticism, heterodoxy, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | bible |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holy book; authoritative book |
| Synonyms: | authority, creed, doctrine, guide, guidebook, handbook, manual, testament, text, sacred writ, sacred writings, scripture, the good news |
| Main Entry: | creed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principles |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, canon, church, confession, conviction, cult, doctrine, dogma, faith, ideology, persuasion, profession, religion, tenet, catechism, weltanschauung |
| Main Entry: | dogma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principle |
| Synonyms: | article, article of faith, canon, conviction, credo, creed, doctrine, gospel, opinion, persuasion, precept, rule, tenet, view, credenda, teachings |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, doubt, indecision, uncertainty, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | idea |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something understood, planned, or |
| Synonyms: | aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint, believed abstraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's understanding; information |
| Synonyms: | ability, acquaintance, apprehension, awareness, cognition, comprehension, consciousness, dirt*, discernment, doctrine, dogma, dope*, education, enlightenment, erudition, expertise, facts, familiarity, goods*, grasp, insight, instruction, intelligence, judgment, know-how*, learning, light*, lore, observation, philosophy, picture, power*, proficiency, recognition, scholarship, science, scoop*, substance, theory, tuition, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, inside story, principles, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
| Synonyms: | adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, mythology, saga, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition, letters, mythos, saw |
| Main Entry: | philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principles, knowledge |
| Synonyms: | aesthetics, attitude, axiom, conception, doctrine, idea, ideology, logic, outlook, reason, reasoning, system, tenet, theory, thinking, thought, truth, values, view, viewpoint, wisdom, beliefs, convictions, metaphysics, ontology, rationalism |
| Main Entry: | precept |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, rule of behavior, action |
| Synonyms: | axiom, behest, bidding, byword, canon, command, commandment, decree, direction, doctrine, dogma, edict, formula, fundamental, guideline, injunction, instruction, law, mandate, maxim, motto, order, ordinance, prescript, principle, regulation, rule, saying, statute, tenet, decretum |
| Main Entry: | propaganda |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | information that is designed to mislead or persuade |
| Synonyms: | advertising, announcement, brainwashing*, doctrine, evangelism, handout, hogwash*, hype*, indoctrination, promotion, publication, publicity, agitprop, disinformation, implantation, inculcation, newspeak, promulgation, proselytism |
| Antonyms: | truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | religion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in divinity; system of beliefs |
| Synonyms: | church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, piety, prayer, preference, ritual, sacrifice, sect, spirituality, superstition, theology, veneration, higher power, pietism, religiosity, rites, sanctification, spiritual-mindedness, standards |
| Antonyms: | atheism, disbelief, agnosticism |
| Main Entry: | sermon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, pastoral, preach, preaching, tirade, moralism, preachment |
| Main Entry: | tenet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principle |
| Synonyms: | article of faith, assumption, canon, conception, conviction, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, impression, maxim, opinion, persuasion, position, precept, presumption, profession, rule, system, teaching, thesis, trust, view, self-conviction |
| Notes: | a tenant is one who has a right or lease to occupy a place; a tenet is a belief, rule or part of a doctrine |
| Main Entry: | theorem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation based on hypothesis and experiments |
| Synonyms: | assumption, axiom, belief, deduction, dictum, doctrine, formula, fundamental, law, postulate, principle, proposition, rule, statement, theory, thesis, principium |
| Antonyms: | fact, proof |
| Main Entry: | theory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypothesis, belief |
| Synonyms: | approach, argument, assumption, base, basis, code, concept, conditions, conjecture, doctrine, dogma, feeling, foundation, grounds, guess, hunch, idea, ideology, impression, method, outlook, philosophy, plan, position, postulate, premise, presentiment, presumption, proposal, provision, rationale, scheme, shot*, speculation, stab*, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspicion, system, theorem, thesis, understanding, codification, formularization, guesswork, supposal, systemization |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, proof, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | orthodoxy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dogma |
| Synonyms: | belief, doctrine, faith, religion, tradition |
| Main Entry: | preaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moralizing |
| Synonyms: | doctrine, exhortation, homily, instruction, sermon, teaching |
| Main Entry: | theology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious theory or belief |
| Synonyms: | belief, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, theism |
| Main Entry: | canon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, edict |
| Synonyms: | assize, catalogue, command, commandment, criterion, declaration, decree, dictate, doctrine, dogma, formula, law, list, maxim, order, ordinance, precept, principle, regulation, roll, standard, statute, table, tenet, touchstone, yardstick, decretum, screed |
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