Synonyms of unorthodoxy

unorthodoxy

noun

as in nonconformity

Related Words

• nonconformity
• nonconformism
• extremism
• radicalism
• unconventionalism
• liberalism
• neoliberalism
• progressivism
• liberalness
• broad-mindedness
• open-mindedness

Dissimilar Words

• conservatism
• traditionalism
• conservativeness
• reactionaryism
• ultraconservatism
• Toryism
• neoconservatism
• bigotry
• die-hardism
• illiberalism

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unorthodoxy

Some of the most defining writers of the modern age were fixated on the idea of Dante as a contemporary, and their recognition points up the poet’s unorthodoxies. — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

Analysts said the move was the clearest step yet toward more mainstream economic policies after years of unorthodoxy under President Tayyip Erdogan, and should help rein in inflation expectations. — Reuters, CNN, 24 Aug. 2023

Curious chefs eventually heard about his unorthodoxy and showed up at the restaurant’s counter, then told others. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023

And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy. — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021

There was no point in questioning the unorthodoxy of starting the waterfowl season this late in the day. — Christine Cunningham, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021

His occasional instincts to unorthodoxy seem not to be accompanied by the spine to force them on the city’s encrusted forces of inertia. — The Editors, National Review, 21 June 2021

For all her social unorthodoxy, Isabella was also an intellectual, fluent in both French and Italian, who ran in scholarly social circles who read Dante for their book club. — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2021

Actually, for all its apparent unorthodoxy, Lorblanchet’s work fits right into a new trend in cave art archeology. — Roger Lewin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019