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homodoxy

homodoxy noun: the quality of being homodox.

Noun

homodoxy (countable and uncountable, plural homodoxies)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    orthodoxy
  2. (rare) 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

Synonyms of homodoxy

Antonyms

Forms of homodoxy

pluralhomodoxies

Origin of homodoxy

From homodox + -y.

Questions about homodoxy

What does homodoxy mean?
Homodoxy means the quality of being homodox.
What part of speech is homodoxy?
Homodoxy is a noun.
What is the plural of homodoxy?
The plural of homodoxy is homodoxies.

Words near homodoxy in the dictionary

  1. homodont
  2. homodontism
  3. homodonts
  4. homodonty
  5. homodox
  6. homodoxy
  7. homodromal
  8. homodromic
  9. homodromous
  10. homodromy
  11. homoduplex

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