homodoxy en · NOUN
Etymology
From homodox + -y.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The quality of being homodox.
There was, they held, a homodoxy or agreement of basic opinions between Plato and Aristotle.
2002, R. Baine Harris, Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought, page 293:
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(countable, rare, uncountable) A homodox belief, creed, or teaching.
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.
1979, Paul M. Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, page 77:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| homodoxies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
unorthodoxy · heterodoxy · heterodoxy · unorthodoxy