Tenet Synonyms

tĕnĭt
A principle taught or advanced for belief, as by a religious or philosophical group
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dogma
  2. doctrine
  3. belief
  4. conviction
  5. principle
  6. creed
  7. position
  8. opinion
  9. credo
  10. view
  11. teaching
  12. faith
  13. trust
  14. impression
  15. canon
  16. system
  17. profession
  18. conception
  19. self-conviction
  20. presumption
  21. maxim
  22. assumption. See syn. study at doctrine.doctrine
  23. assumption
  24. philosophy
  25. rule

Tenet Sentence Examples

  • Yet, in striking contrast to this orthodox tenet is his vivid conception of the weakness and misery of men, the hopelessness of the struggle with evil, whether in society or in the individual.

  • He avers that this " metaphysic of experience " is not idealism, or the tenet that consciousness is the only reality.

  • Immediately after the death of Huss many priests who refused to administer communion in the two kinds - now the principal tenet of the adherents of Huss - had been expelled from their parishes.

  • The common tenet of the whole school is that without inference we immediately perceive the external world, at all events as a resisting something external to our organism.

  • The family unity was such an accepted tenet within our lives.

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