name
Meaning 1
The Eastern Orthodox Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
orthodoxy
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UK: /ˈɔːθədɒksi/
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US: /ˈɔːɹθədɑːksi/
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name
Meaning 2
The aggregate of the definitive elements of the Eastern Orthodox Church, such as its faith, worship, theology, and traditions.
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name
Meaning 3
The beliefs and practices of Orthodox Judaism.
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noun
Meaning 4
Correctness of doctrine and belief in regard to any doctrinal (i.e. philosophical or theological) system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: heterodoxy, cacodoxy
noun
Meaning 5
Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: homodoxy
Antonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy
noun
Meaning 6
the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unorthodoxy
Broader terms: unoriginality
Narrower terms: conventionality, convention, conventionalism, traditionalism, traditionality
noun
Meaning 7
a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unorthodoxy
Broader terms: orientation
Narrower terms: conformity, conformism
History
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía), from ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) + δόξα (dóxa, “way, opinion”). By surface analysis, orthodox + -y.
Across languages
Translations
119 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: الأُرْثُوذُكْسِيَّة (al-ʔurṯūḏuksiyya) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Armenian: ուղղափառություն (uġġapʻaṙutʻyun) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Old Armenian: ուղղափառութիւն (ułłapʻaṙutʻiwn) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Azerbaijani: اورتودوقسلق (ortodoqsluq) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Azerbaijani: اورتادوسلق (ortadosluq) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Azerbaijani: pravoslavlıq — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Belarusian: правасла́ўе (pravasláwje) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Bulgarian: правосла́вие (pravoslávie) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Chinese Mandarin: 東正教 /东正教 (dōngzhèngjiào) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Chinese Mandarin: 正統教 /正统教 (zhèngtǒngjiào) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Chinese Mandarin: 正教 (zhèngjiào) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Crimean Tatar: ortodokslıq — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Czech: pravoslaví — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Dutch: orthodoxie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Erzya: видекемевкс (videkemevks) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Estonian: õigeusk — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Finnish: ortodoksisuus — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Finnish: ortodoksijuutalaisuus — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- French: orthodoxie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Gagauz: pravoslavlık — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Gagauz: ortodoxluk — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Galician: ortodoxismo — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Georgian: მართლმადიდებლობა (martlmadidebloba) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- German: Orthodoxie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- German: Rechtgläubigkeit — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Greek: Ορθοδοξία (Orthodoxía) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Hebrew: אורתודוקסיה (ortodoksiyá) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Hungarian: ortodoxia — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Indonesian: Ortodoksi — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Italian: ortodossia — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Japanese: 正教会 (seikyōkai) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Japanese: 正教 (seikyō) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Karaim: yavanlıx — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Kazakh: православие (pravoslavie) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Korean: 정교회 (jeonggyohoe) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Korean: 정교 (jeonggyo) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Kyrgyz: православие (pravoslaviye) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Latvian: pareizticība — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Lithuanian: stačiatikybė — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Macedonian: правосла́вие (pravoslávie) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Polish: prawosławie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Portuguese: ortodoxia — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Portuguese: ortodoxismo — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Romanian: ortodoxism — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Romanian: ortodoxie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Romanian: pravoslavie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Russian: правосла́вие (pravoslávije) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Serbo-Croatian: православље — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Serbo-Croatian: pravoslavlje — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Slovak: pravoslávie — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Slovene: pravoslavje — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Spanish: ortodoxia — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Tajik: православие (pravoslaviye) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Tatar: православие (prawoslawiye) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Turkish: Ortodoksluk — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Ukrainian: правосла́в'я (pravoslávʺja) — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Uzbek: pravoslaviye — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Vietnamese: Chính Thống giáo Đông phương — the Eastern Orthodox Church and its foundations
- Afrikaans: ortodoksie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Arabic: أُرْثُوذُكْسِيَّة (ʔurṯūḏuksiyya) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Aramaic: תריצי שובחא — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Aramaic: ܬܪ̈ܝܨܝ ܫܘܒܚܐ — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Armenian: ուղղափառություն (uġġapʻaṙutʻyun) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Basque: ortodoxia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Catalan: ortodòxia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Chinese Mandarin: 正統 /正统 (zhèngtǒng) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Czech: ortodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Danish: ortodoksi — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Dutch: orthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Estonian: õigeusklikkus — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Estonian: ortodoksia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Faroese: rætttrúgv — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Faroese: rætttrúnaður — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Finnish: puhdasoppisuus — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Finnish: ortodoksisuus — correctness in doctrine and belief
- French: orthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Georgian: მართლმადიდებლობა (martlmadidebloba) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Orthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Hochorthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Neuorthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: vernünftige Orthodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Rechtgläubigkeit — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Strenggläubigkeit — correctness in doctrine and belief
- German: Schriftgläubigkeit — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Greek: ορθοδοξία (orthodoxía) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Haitian Creole: ortodoksi — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Hebrew: אורתודוקסיה — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Hebrew: שמרנות (shamranut) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Hindi: ऑर्थोडॉक्सी (ŏrthoḍŏksī) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Hindi: ओथडोक्सी (othḍoksī) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Icelandic: rétttrúnaður — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Irish: ceartchreideamh — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Irish: ceartchreidmheacht — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Irish: ortadocsacht — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Italian: ortodossia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Japanese: 正統 (seitō) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Khmer: សម្មាមតិ (sammaamea’te’) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Korean: 정설 (jeongseol) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Latin: orthodoxia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Norwegian: ortodoksi — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Persian: ارتدکسی — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Polish: ortodoksja — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Polish: prawosławie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Portuguese: ortodoxia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Romanian: ortodoxie — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Russian: правосла́вие (pravoslávije) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Russian: ортодокса́льность (ortodoksálʹnostʹ) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Serbo-Croatian: православље — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Serbo-Croatian: ортодоксија — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Serbo-Croatian: pravoslavlje — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Serbo-Croatian: ortodoksija — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Spanish: ortodoxia — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Swedish: ortodoxi — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Swedish: renlärighet — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Ottoman Turkish: رشاد (reşâd) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Ukrainian: православ'я (pravoslavʺja) — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Volapük: lotodog — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Volapük: verätalekred — correctness in doctrine and belief
- Yiddish: אָרטאָדאָקסיע (ortodoksye) — correctness in doctrine and belief