Unorthodoxy

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of orthodoxy; the quality or state of being unorthodox

    "Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy, a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades."

  2. 2
    the quality of being unorthodox wordnet
  3. 3
    a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion wordnet
  4. 4
    any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position wordnet

Synonyms

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heresyheterodoxyaberrancyaberrationambiguityambivalence

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"Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy, a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades."

Etymology

From un- + orthodoxy.

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