Synonyms for dogma
ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg-; -mə tədog·ma

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1. dogma

   Doctrine primarily signifies that which is taught; principle, the fundamental basis on which the teaching rests. A doctrine is reasoned out, and may be defended by reasoning; a dogma rests on authority, as of direct revelation, the decision of the church, etc. A doctrine or dogma is a statement of some one item of belief; a creed is a summary of doctrines or dogmas. Dogma has commonly, at the present day, an offensive signification, as of a belief arrogantly asserted. Tenet is simply that which is held, and is applied to a single item of belief; it is a neutral word, neither approving nor condemning; we speak of the doctrines of our own church; of the tenets of others. A precept relates not to belief, but to conduct. Compare FAITH; LAW.

   Synonyms:
   article of belief, article of faith, belief, doctrine, precept, principle, teaching, tenet

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1. dogma, tenetnoun

   a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

   Synonyms:
   tenet

2. dogmanoun

   a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

   "he believed all the Marxist dogma"

   Synonyms:
   tenet

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1. dogmanoun

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, tenet, opinion, principle, article of faith

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1. dogmanoun

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, tenet

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1. List of paraphrases for "dogma":

   dogmatism, dogmatic, doctrine

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1. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:

   Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

2. Steve Balch:

   My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

4. George Tita:

   People who believe that housing is bad, that crime is always up, they believe that based on their world view and dogma and not on facts, all we can do is provide unbiased, carefully-constructed data. At the end of the day, there are some people who don’t care about the facts.

5. Deepak Chopra:

   Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.