Dogma Synonyms and Antonyms

dôgmə, dŏg-
A principle taught or advanced for belief, as by a religious or philosophical group
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tenet
  2. belief
  3. doctrine
  4. canon
  5. credo
  6. teaching
  7. creed
  8. gospel
  9. philosophy
  10. principle
  11. rule
  12. statement
  13. teachings
Belief
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. doctrine
  2. creed
  3. authoritative opinion
  4. conviction
Antonyms:
  1. doubt
  2. uncertainty
  3. unbelief
  4. ambiguity
  5. indecision

Words Related to Dogma

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Dogma Sentence Examples

  • In place of dogma, the elements of religion were alone to be taught.

  • This dogma was shaken by Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828.

  • He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.

  • He gave a vigorous support to the promulgation of the dogma of Papal Infallibility in 1870.

  • The methodists agreed with the empirics in one point, in their contempt for anatomy; but, strictly speaking, they were dogmatists, though with a dogma different from that of the Hippocratic school.

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