Orthodoxy
noun
The normal or accepted way of thinking about or doing something.
Her views on politics are considered part of the mainstream orthodoxy.
Often appears as...
- political orthodoxy
- religious orthodoxy
noun
Belief in or agreement with the official or generally accepted principles, doctrines, or beliefs of a religion or group.
Her beliefs were in line with Christian orthodoxy.
Often appears as...
- christian orthodoxy
- orthodox beliefs
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Religious
noun
The normal or accepted way of thinking about or doing something.
Her views on politics are considered part of the mainstream orthodoxy.
Often appears as...
- political orthodoxy
- religious orthodoxy
noun
Belief in or agreement with the official or generally accepted principles, doctrines, or beliefs of a religion or group.
Her beliefs were in line with Christian orthodoxy.
Often appears as...
- christian orthodoxy
- orthodox beliefs
Usage tips
Religious
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Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Binding
Orthodoxy can imply adherence to cultural norms that may seem outdated or conservative.
Despite modern ideas, the community still followed social orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mainstream Reference
Use orthodoxy to discuss common practices or beliefs in society, politics, or other fields.
His economic theories challenge financial orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 3/3Implied Rigidity
Orthodoxy often suggests a lack of flexibility or openness to new ideas.
She despised the orthodoxy that stifled creative thought.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Binding
Orthodoxy can imply adherence to cultural norms that may seem outdated or conservative.
Despite modern ideas, the community still followed social orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mainstream Reference
Use orthodoxy to discuss common practices or beliefs in society, politics, or other fields.
His economic theories challenge financial orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 3/3Implied Rigidity
Orthodoxy often suggests a lack of flexibility or openness to new ideas.
She despised the orthodoxy that stifled creative thought.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Binding
Orthodoxy can imply adherence to cultural norms that may seem outdated or conservative.
Despite modern ideas, the community still followed social orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 2/3Mainstream Reference
Use orthodoxy to discuss common practices or beliefs in society, politics, or other fields.
His economic theories challenge financial orthodoxy.
Pro Tip 3/3Implied Rigidity
Orthodoxy often suggests a lack of flexibility or openness to new ideas.
She despised the orthodoxy that stifled creative thought.
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
The more I learned about these unethical practices, the more violated I felt, particularly because businesses from my own community were the ones taking advantage of my orthodoxy. So, with emotions running high, and absolutely no experience in butchery, some friends and I opened a meat store
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Kendra McSweeney: Drugs,...
is doing to places overseas. Second, I think we really need to rethink the war on drugs. We're not talking about legalizing cocaine. Let's not get carried away here. Just talking about sitting down and reviewing drug policy orthodoxy, which has for 40 years done nothing but move traffickers
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How to foster productive...
the tie should go to allowing more rather than less speech. Here's why. For one, there's always the risk that an innovative or creative idea gets squelched because it seems unfamiliar or dangerous. Almost by definition, innovative ideas challenge orthodoxies about how things should be.
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Siddharthan Chandran:...
because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves. And this observation is important for two reasons. The first is it challenges one of the orthodoxies that we learnt at medical school,
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How ancient art...
appropriating ideas and profiting from cultures they considered primitive? Questions like this deserve scrutiny, as artists continue to redefine standards. Perhaps not too long from now, the bold innovations of modern art will seem like stale orthodoxies,
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Karen Armstrong: 2008...
Indeed, some of the world traditions think very little of religious orthodoxy. In the Quran, religious opinion -- religious orthodoxy -- is dismissed as "zanna:" self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other,
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective
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George Papandreou:...
in the orthodoxy of austerity. Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.
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Liz Diller: Architecture...
which feeds, or has been feeding, our insatiable appetite for visual stimulation with an ever greater digital virtuosity. High definition, in our opinion, has become the new orthodoxy.
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On choosing to be gay PIPE...
equally I didn't want to conform to some heteronormative orthodoxy I wanted to bust that orthodoxy wide open to liberate sexuality and society for
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Bassam Tariq: The beauty...
The more I learned about these unethical practices, the more violated I felt, particularly because businesses from my own community were the ones taking advantage of my orthodoxy. So, with emotions running high, and absolutely no experience in butchery, some friends and I opened a meat store
Video examples
Kendra McSweeney: Drugs,...
is doing to places overseas. Second, I think we really need to rethink the war on drugs. We're not talking about legalizing cocaine. Let's not get carried away here. Just talking about sitting down and reviewing drug policy orthodoxy, which has for 40 years done nothing but move traffickers
Video examples
How to foster productive...
the tie should go to allowing more rather than less speech. Here's why. For one, there's always the risk that an innovative or creative idea gets squelched because it seems unfamiliar or dangerous. Almost by definition, innovative ideas challenge orthodoxies about how things should be.
Video examples
Siddharthan Chandran:...
because there are stem cells in the brain, even, which can enable new myelin, new insulation, to be laid down over the damaged nerves. And this observation is important for two reasons. The first is it challenges one of the orthodoxies that we learnt at medical school,
Video examples
How ancient art...
appropriating ideas and profiting from cultures they considered primitive? Questions like this deserve scrutiny, as artists continue to redefine standards. Perhaps not too long from now, the bold innovations of modern art will seem like stale orthodoxies,
Video examples
Karen Armstrong: 2008...
Indeed, some of the world traditions think very little of religious orthodoxy. In the Quran, religious opinion -- religious orthodoxy -- is dismissed as "zanna:" self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other,
Video examples
Glenn Greenwald: Why...
because mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective
Video examples
George Papandreou:...
in the orthodoxy of austerity. Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.
Video examples
Liz Diller: Architecture...
which feeds, or has been feeding, our insatiable appetite for visual stimulation with an ever greater digital virtuosity. High definition, in our opinion, has become the new orthodoxy.
Video examples
On choosing to be gay PIPE...
equally I didn't want to conform to some heteronormative orthodoxy I wanted to bust that orthodoxy wide open to liberate sexuality and society for
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Jesse Jackson
American Activist
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
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James Fenton
British Poet
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.
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Juan Williams
American Journalist
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.
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Gavyn Davies
British Businessman
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Francis Schaeffer
American Theologian
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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Richard Rohr
American Clergyman
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
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Jesse Jackson
American Activist
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Quote examples
James Fenton
British Poet
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.
Quote examples
Juan Williams
American Journalist
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
Quote examples
Mike Cernovich
American Writer
Gawker started out speaking the truth to power, and then it became about bullying anyone who didn't conform to their social justice orthodoxy. They wanted to inflict pain on people with no platform simply for the sake of inflicting pain.
Quote examples
Gavyn Davies
British Businessman
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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Thomas Huxley
English Scientist
I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Quote examples
Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
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Francis Schaeffer
American Theologian
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
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Richard Rohr
American Clergyman
It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.
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