| Concept: | Heterodoxy. [Sectarianism.] |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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-nouns
heterodoxy; error; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism (irreligion)., bigotry (obstinacy); fanaticism, iconoclasm; hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism; anthropomorphism; idolatry; superstition (credulity); dissent., sectarism, sectarianism; noncomformity; secularism; syncretism, religious sects., protestantism, Arianism, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism, Erastianism, Calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, Puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism, High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Free Church; ultramontanism; papism, papistry; monkery; papacy; Angelicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery, Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church., paganism, heathenism, ethicism; mythology; polytheism, ditheism, tritheism; dualism; heathendom., Judaism, Gentilism, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Babism, Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism, Brahimism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Hylotheism, Mormonism; Christian Science., heretic, antichrist; pagan, heathen; painim, paynim; giaour; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator., bigot (obstinacy); fanatic, abdal, iconoclast., latitudinarian, Deist, Theist, Unitarian; positivist, materialist; Homolousian, Homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian; skeptic., schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror; Huguenot, Protestant; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker, Catholic, Roman, Catholic, Romanist, ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan., Jew, Hebrew, Rabbinist, Rabbist; Babist, Motazilite, Shiah, Sunni, Wahabi, Mohammedian, Mussulman, Moslem, Muslim, Osmanli; Brahmin, Brahman; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi, Gymnosophist, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Sadducee, Rosicrucian
-adjectives
heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular, (lay) [more]., pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim; pantheistic, polytheistic., Judaical, Muslim, Brahminical, Buddhist; Romish, Protestant, Catholic, Roman Catholic., bigoted (prejudiced), (obstinate) [more]; superstitious (credulous); fanatical; idolatrous; visionary (imagainative).
-phrases
"slave to no sect" [Pope]; superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
orthodoxy |
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| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement, disapproval |
Synonyms: |
bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
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agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, endorsement, ratification, sanction |
| Main Entry: | dissidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference of opinion |
Synonyms: |
bad vibes, contention, disaccord, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, dispeace, dispute, dissension, dissent, feud, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, rupture, schism, sour note, strife, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | heresy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, paganism, revisionism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sin |
Antonyms: |
orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
Synonyms: |
bohemianism, breach, contumaciousness, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discordance, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, insubordination, lawlessness, mutinousness, negation, nonacceptance, nonagreement, noncompliance, nonconsent, objection, opposition, originality, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, rejection, strangeness, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness, veto, violation |
Antonyms: |
compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | materialism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for possessions |
Synonyms: |
heterodoxy, physicism, pragmatism, utilitarianism |
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spiritualism |