Opposition to or rejection of traditional, established, or conventional beliefs and practices.
From anti- (against) + orthodoxy (conventional belief), which comes from Greek orthos (correct) + doxa (opinion). The term emerged in the 18th century to describe intellectual movements challenging established doctrines.
This word reveals how every era thinks it's more open-minded than the last—the 'antiorthodox' thinkers of one generation often become the rigid 'orthodox' of the next, creating an endless cycle of rebellion and tradition.
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