dogmanoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈdɒɡ.mə/us/ˈdɑːɡ.mə/disapprovinga fixed, especially religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts
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Ideas, concepts and theories
- abstract
- afterthought
- brainchild
- concept
- conception
- construct
- fancy
- ideology
- inspiration
- intellectual property
- IP
- ism
- meat
- proposition
- propositional
- punctuated equilibrium
- sacred cow
- straw man
- tenet
- thrust
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
Examples from literature
- I confess that I have a certain difficulty in accepting this dogma.
- It has no set of dogmas, no sacred book, no moral code.
- The Anglican Church has formulated this dogma much in the same words as that of the Orthodox Church.
- The dogma of materialism was specially cultivated at this time.
- The dogma suffers from an insoluble contradiction within itself.