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homodoxy
Homodoxy (noun) means the state of agreeing with an accepted view or belief.
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1
The state of agreeing with an accepted view or belief.
"There was, they held, a homodoxy or agreement of basic opinions between Plato and Aristotle."
— R. Baine Harris, Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought (2002)
2
A belief, creed, or teaching that matches the accepted view.
"What all this means is that the synonymies we standardly see across languages, and the homodoxies we standardly see across idiolects, are very seldom the perfect synonymies or homodoxies we might suppose them to be."
— Paul M. Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (1979)
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Etymology
Formed from homodox and -y.
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What is the meaning of homodoxy?
"homodoxy" (noun) means the state of agreeing with an accepted view or belief.
What is another word for homodoxy?
Other words for "homodoxy" include orthodoxy.
What is the opposite of homodoxy?
Opposites of "homodoxy" include unorthodoxy, heterodoxy.
What are the different meanings of homodoxy?
"homodoxy" has 2 main meanings: 1. The state of agreeing with an accepted view or belief; 2. A belief, creed, or teaching that matches the accepted view.
