dox-, -doxy, dog-, dogma-, dogmato-

(Greek: believe, belief; that which is thought to be true; opinion, doctrine, decree; praise; confidence)


adoxal
Without the right reason; improper; absurd.
adoxy
Ignominy, shame; slander, infamy.
cacodox
Holding wrong or evil opinions or doctrines.
cacodoxy
Wrong opinion or doctrince, heterodoxy.
dogma
1. That which is held as an opinion; a belief, principle, tenet; especially, a tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down by a particular church, sect, or school of thought; sometimes, depreciatingly, an imperious or arrogant declaration of opinion.
2. The body of opinion formulated or authoritatively stated; systematized belief; tenets or principles collectively; doctrinal system.
3. A belief taught or held as true; any system of established principles and tenets.
4. An opinion asserted in a positive manner as if it were of the highest authority.
When I say “everybody says so,” I mean I say so.
(When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.)
—Ed Howe
dogmatic, dogmatical
1. Positive and empatic in asserting opinions.
2. Asserted in a positive and emphatic manner, a dogmatic statement.
3. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, dogma or dogmas; characterized by or consisting in dogma; doctrinal.
4. Proceeding upon a priori principles accepted as true, instead of being founded upon experience or induction, as dogmatic philosophy, dogmatic medicine, etc.
5. Of persons, their writings, etc.; asserting or imposing dogmas or opinions, in an authoritative, imperious, or arrogant manner.
dogmatism
1. Positive assertion of dogma or opinion; dogmatizing; positiveness in the assertion of opinion.
2. A system of philosophy based upon principles dictated by reasoning alone, and not relying upon experience; opposed to skepticism.

More generally, a way of thinking based upon principles which have not been tested by reflection.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
—Albert Einstein
dogmatist
One who dogmatizes, who asserts or lays down particular dogmas; especially, one who positively asserts or imposes his own opinions; a dogmatic person.
dogmatize
To make dogmatic assertions; to speak authoritatively or imperiously (upon a subject) without reference to argument or evidence.
dogmatology
The science of dogma.
doxastic
Of or pertaining to opinion; depending on or exercising opinion.
doxogenic
Induced by one’s own ideas, opinion, or belief about what should happen.
doxographer
A writer who collects and records the opinions of the Greek philosophers.
doxography
A collection of philosophical opinions.
doxological
Pertaining to or of the nature of a doxology; praising, glorifying.

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "faith, trust; faithful, trusting; believe, belief": cred-; fid-.


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