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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion);

2. a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Orthodoxy \Or"tho*dox`y\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. orthodoxie. See Orthodox.] 1. Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy. [1913 Webster] Basil himself bears full and clear testimony to Gregory's orthodoxy. --Waterland. [1913 Webster] 2. Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed. [1913 Webster] 3. By extension, said of any generally accepted doctrine or belief; the orthodox practice or belief. [1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

orthodoxy n 1: the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion) [ant: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy] 2: a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards [ant: heresy, heterodoxy, unorthodoxy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "orthodoxy": accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, belief, compliance, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, conventionality, correspondence, credo, creed, doctrine, faith, firmness, flexibility, fundamentalism, hardness, harmony, impliability, inexorability, inflexibility, keeping, line, malleability, obduracy, obdurateness, obedience, observance, obstinacy, pliancy, precisianism, purism, puritanism, reconcilement, reconciliation, relentlessness, religion, religious belief, religious faith, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, stiffness, strictness, stubbornness, system of beliefs, teaching, theology, tradition, traditionalism, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, uniformity, unrelentingness, unyieldingness