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heterodoxist

heterodoxist noun: someone who dissents from an orthodoxy; an iconoclast.

Noun

heterodoxist (plural heterodoxists)

  1. Someone who dissents from an orthodoxy; an iconoclast.
    • The heterodoxists bill themselves as skeptics who are immune to the trappings of tribalism, partisanship, and the status quo. They alone can see through all the cant and pieties and get to the real truth. They believe that only those with an appropriate loathing of wokeism and a sneering contempt...2024 March 15, Radley Balko, “The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers”, in The UnPopulist, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2026
    Antonyms:
    orthodoxist

Antonyms of heterodoxist

Forms of heterodoxist

pluralheterodoxists

Origin of heterodoxist

From heterodox + -ist.

Questions about heterodoxist

What does heterodoxist mean?
Heterodoxist means someone who dissents from an orthodoxy; an iconoclast.
What part of speech is heterodoxist?
Heterodoxist is a noun.
What is the plural of heterodoxist?
The plural of heterodoxist is heterodoxists.

Words near heterodoxist in the dictionary

  1. heterodox
  2. heterodoxal
  3. heterodoxic
  4. heterodoxical
  5. heterodoxies
  6. heterodoxist
  7. heterodoxists
  8. heterodoxly
  9. heterodoxness
  10. heterodoxy
  11. heterodromous

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