unorthodoxy

un·or·tho·dox

(ŭn-ôr′thə-dŏks′)

adj.

Breaking with convention or tradition; not orthodox.

un·or′tho·dox′ly adv.

un·or′tho·dox′y n.

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unorthodoxy

(ʌnˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ)

1. unorthodox practice

2. the quality of being unorthodox

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Noun	1.	unorthodoxy - any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position heresy, heterodoxy iconoclasm - the orientation of an iconoclast orientation - an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity - a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs orthodoxy - a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
	2.	unorthodoxy - a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion heresy cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned Arianism - heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son Marcionism - the Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Jesus as a human Monophysitism - a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature Monothelitism - the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople Nestorianism - the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God) Pelagianism - the theological doctrine put forward by Pelagius which denied original sin and affirmed the ability of humans to be righteous; condemned as heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431 Docetism - the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real Gnosticism - a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches tritheism - (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods Albigensianism, Catharism - a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition Zurvanism - a heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring
	3.	unorthodoxy - the quality of being unorthodox heterodoxy originality - the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) unconventionality - unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional nonconformity - unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values orthodoxy - the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)

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He had planned at first to be a minister, but the unorthodoxy of his opinions rendered this impossible; and he also studied law only to abandon it.

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