All 3 Uses of
orthodox
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Early on certain professors at the medical school—especially the eminent anthropologist Arthur Kleinman and the equally eminent child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg—had taken a shine to Farmer and licensed his unorthodox habits of attendance.†
Chpt 2.11unorthodox = unusual (describing thinking or behavior as uncommon or nontraditional)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- What I don't like about Marxist literature is ... the arrogance, the petty infighting, the dishonesty, the desire for self-promotion, the orthodoxy.
Chpt 4.21 *orthodoxy = commonly accepted beliefs that are supposed to be accepted without question
- I can't stand the orthodoxy, and I'll bet that's one reason that science did not flourish in the former Soviet Union.†
Chpt 4.21orthodoxy = a commonly accepted belief or practice
Definition:
normal (describing thinking or behavior as commonly or traditionally accepted)