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Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy – What’s the difference?

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Orthodoxy vs Heterodoxy - What's the difference?
Heterodoxy is an antonym of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is an antonym of heterodoxy. As nouns the difference between orthodoxy and heterodoxy is that orthodoxy is correctness in doctrine and belief while heterodoxy is the quality of being heterodox.

orthodoxy

English

Noun

(orthodoxies)

  • Correctness in doctrine and belief.
  • Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).

    • Antonyms

    * heterodoxy

    heterodoxy

    English

    Noun

    (heterodoxies)

  • The quality of being heterodox.
  • A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
  • * 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
    • A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.

    Antonyms

    * orthodoxy

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