Synonyms for unorthodoxy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : awr-thuh-dok-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔr θəˌdɒk si |
Top 10 synonyms for unorthodoxy Other synonyms for the word unorthodoxy
- allowance
- bad vibes
- bohemianism
- bone
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- breach
- characteristic
- clinker
- conflict
- contention
- contumaciousness
- creative spirit
- creativity
- denial
- departure
- deviation
- difference
- disaccord
- disaffection
- disagreement
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discordance
- disharmony
- disobedience
- dispeace
- dispensation
- dispute
- dissent
- dissidence
- eccentricity
- exception
- excess
- exemption
- far cry
- feud
- flak
- freshness
- hassle
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- iconoclasm
- imagination
- imaginativeness
- incongruity
- inconsistency
- individuality
- ingeniousness
- ingenuity
- innovation
- innovativeness
- insubordination
- invention
- inventiveness
- irregularity
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- malformation
- malfunction
- misbelief
- modernity
- mutinousness
- negation
- new idea
- newness
- nonacceptance
- nonagreement
- noncompliance
- nonconcurrence
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nonconsent
- nope
- novelty
- objection
- oddity
- opposition
- originality
- peculiarity
- poles apart
- privilege
- protest
- quirk
- rarity
- recalcitrance
- recusance
- recusancy
- refusal
- rejection
- resistance
- resourcefulness
- rupture
- schism
- singularity
- sour note
- spat
- spirit
- split
- strangeness
- strife
- transgressiveness
- unconformity
- unconventionality
- uniqueness
- unorthodoxy
- unruliness
- variance
- veto
- violation
Définition of unorthodoxy
Origin :- 1704, from unorthodox + -y (1).
- As in nonconformity : noun belief, behavior different from most
- As in originality : noun creativeness
- As in irregularity : noun something that is irregular
- As in dissent : noun disagreement, disapproval
- As in dissidence : noun difference of opinion
- As in anomaly : noun deviation from normal, usual
- He was, however, banished for unorthodoxy and died at Lampsacus aged 72.
- Extract from : « The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura » by Lucius Apuleius
- But unorthodoxy in the realm of politics is still frowned upon.
- Extract from : « The Coming of Coal » by Robert W. Bruere
- The association of the name of Copernicus with that of Galileo has always cast an air of unorthodoxy about the great astronomer.
- Extract from : « Catholic Churchmen in Science » by James J. Walsh
- Because, if both orthodoxy and unorthodoxy go wrong, what is a poor human woman to do?
- Extract from : « Mrs. Maxon Protests » by Anthony Hope
- From this it would seem that heresy and unorthodoxy had already made its appearance in the diocese.
- Extract from : « Irish Witchcraft and Demonology » by St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) Seymour
- The Freethinker, treated as a moral leper, is driven from his home and goes abroad to expiate his sin of unorthodoxy.
- Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 » by Various
- They have been admired because they concealed their essential conventionality under a slight perfume of unorthodoxy.
- Extract from : « At Large » by Arthur Christopher Benson
- To cap all this unorthodoxy, the Wends make the Creator call after Judas that he is forgiven.
- Extract from : « Odd Bits of History » by Henry W. Wolff
- His behaviour during these same negotiations with Rome witnesses equally strongly to his political wiliness and his unorthodoxy.
- Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. III (of 6) The Reaction in France » by Georg Brandes
- It was shown to a reverend Father Remigio of Florence, therefore was probably orthodox, or its unorthodoxy was veiled.
- Extract from : « Giordano Bruno » by James Lewis McIntyre
Antonyms for unorthodoxy
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