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adiaphora

adiaphora is the plural of adiaphoron.

Meaning of adiaphoron

Noun

adiaphoron (plural adiaphora)

  1. A matter that is morally neutral.
  2. Something neither forbidden nor commanded by scripture.

Noun

adiaphora

  1. (nonstandard, uncommon) Synonym of adiaphoron.
    • Adiaphora being the theological tool which was developed during the controversies of the Reformation, is the baptism not an adiaphora?2003, P. Solomon Raj, The New Wine-Skins: The Story of the Indigenous Missions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, →ISBN, chapter i: “The Quest”, 13
    • Spener thought it should have been considered an adiaphora, or at worst, a moderate institution of spiritual life; Loescher thought its privatized nature competed directly with public and corporate worship.2008 May, Timothy M. Salo, An Orthodox Lutheran View of Ecclesiology: A Doctrinal and Practical Exchange between Valentin Ernst Loescher (1673–1749) and Joachim Lange (1670–1744), ProQuest, UMI №...
    Synonyms:
    adiaphoron

Synonyms of adiaphora

Questions about adiaphora

What does adiaphora mean?
Adiaphora means synonym of adiaphoron.
What is adiaphora the plural of?
Adiaphora is the plural of adiaphoron.
What part of speech is adiaphora?
Adiaphora is a noun.

Words near adiaphora in the dictionary

  1. adiantoid
  2. adiantum
  3. adiantums
  4. adiaphanous
  5. adiaphonon
  6. adiaphora
  7. adiaphoral
  8. adiaphoresis
  9. adiaphoretic
  10. adiaphoria
  11. adiaphoric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adiaphora (page history and authors); adiaphoron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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