orthodoxy

orthodoxy
    n 1: the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
         [ant: {heterodoxy}, {unorthodoxy}]
    2: a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
       [ant: {heresy}, {heterodoxy}, {unorthodoxy}]
    

Orthodoxy \Or"tho*dox`y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. orthodoxie. See
   {Orthodox}.]
   1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in
      the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith;
      -- opposed to {heterodoxy} or to {heresy}.
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            Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to
            Gregory's orthodoxy.                  --Waterland.
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   2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of
      moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
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   3. By extension, said of any generally accepted doctrine or
      belief; the orthodox practice or belief.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "orthodoxy":
      accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation,
      adaption, adjustment, agreement, belief, compliance, conformance,
      conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency,
      conventionality, correspondence, credo, creed, doctrine, faith,
      firmness, flexibility, fundamentalism, hardness, harmony,
      impliability, inexorability, inflexibility, keeping, line,
      malleability, obduracy, obdurateness, obedience, observance,
      obstinacy, pliancy, precisianism, purism, puritanism,
      reconcilement, reconciliation, relentlessness, religion,
      religious belief, religious faith, rigidity, rigidness, rigor,
      rigorousness, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness,
      system of beliefs, teaching, theology, tradition, traditionalism,
      unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uniformity, unrelentingness,
      unyieldingness