homodoxy

English

Etymology

From homodox +‎ -y.

Noun

homodoxy (countable and uncountable, plural homodoxies)

1. The quality of being homodox.

   Synonym: orthodoxy

   Antonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy

   • 2002, R. Baine Harris, Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought, page 293:

     There was, they held, a homodoxy or agreement of basic opinions between Plato and Aristotle.

2. (rare) A homodox belief, creed, or teaching.
   • 1979, Paul M. Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, page 77:

     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.