What's the difference between heterodoxy and unorthodoxy?

Heterodoxy


Definition:

  • (n.) An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If political heterodoxy had initially marginalised Dr Atl into the space of the azotea, and torrid romances had kept him there, then sexual difference had drawn poets such as Novo and Villaurrutia to rooftops.

Unorthodoxy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Too many of our neighbourhoods are not connected to the energy and can-do unorthodoxy that is propelling the city of Bristol into the 21st century.
  • (2) A report by Yellow Railroad in 2010 summed it up well : "The single strongest, overriding characteristic that unites and influences all aspects of Bristol's personality is the spirit of innovation, creativity and unorthodoxy" What role does Watershed play in connecting the organisations and creatives of Bristol?
  • (3) His speed and unorthodoxy bamboozled every contender, from rock-chinned plodders such as George Chuvalo to more brittle-skinned hopefuls such as Henry Cooper and Brian London, who entertained him briefly on his European sojourns.
  • (4) Holroyd describes how, a year before Germany invaded Soviet Russia and 18 months before the United States came into the war, Shaw inserted one passage “that sounded peculiarly Shavian in its prophetic unorthodoxy”, namely: “The friendship of Russia is vitally important to us just now.
  • (5) Indeed, his very unorthodoxy may account for the originality of his insights.
  • (6) Some of the churches attacked in the most recent wave of persecutions have been official and state-sanctioned members of the “ Three-Self” movement , a Protestant denomination that is meant to be entirely under government control (many of the churches have CCTV cameras facing the pulpits, to check the sermons for political unorthodoxy).
  • (7) 1950s: Tears Inside, from Tomorrow is the Question As the jazz world absorbs the death of Ornette Coleman , the accolades to an extraordinary musical pioneer naturally concentrate on his unorthodoxies – his weird wardrobe, his white, plastic alto sax, his often impenetrable explanations of his work, and primarily his radical impulse to break jazz free of the structures of pop songs and allow improvisers to evolve their own shared narratives in the passing moment.
  • (8) Despite the unorthodoxy of Valfells' points, he was actually making his argument from a position of some kind of strength in that he is a) Icelandic, and b) comes from a family with a history of running unofficial currencies.

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