All iconoclasm synonyms

noun iconoclasm

• belief — Belief is a feeling of certainty that something exists, is true, or is good.
• nihilism — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
• blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• infidelity — marital disloyalty; adultery.
• disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
• unbelief — the state or quality of not believing; incredulity or skepticism, especially in matters of doctrine or religious faith.
• impiety — lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
• doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
• heresy — opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
• skepticism — skeptical attitude or temper; doubt.
• irreverence — the quality of being irreverent; lack of reverence or respect.
• godless — having or acknowledging no god or deity; atheistic.
• paganism — pagan spirit or attitude in religious or moral questions.
• freethinking — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
• irreligion — lack of religion.
• dissent — to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
• defection — the act or an instance of defecting
• nonconformity — failure or refusal to conform, as with established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
• divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
• schism — division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
• atheism — Atheism is the belief that there is no God. Compare agnosticism.
• apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
• sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• dissidence — disagreement: political dissidence.
• revisionism — advocacy or approval of revision.
• secularism — secular spirit or tendency, especially a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship.
• heterodoxy — heterodox state or quality.
• agnosticism — Agnosticism is the belief that it is not possible to say definitely whether or not there is a God. Compare atheism.
• sectarianism — sectarian spirit or tendencies; excessive devotion to a particular sect, especially in religion.
• strangeness — the quality or condition of being strange.
• violation — the act of violating.
• unruliness — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
• disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
• negation — the act of denying: He shook his head in negation of the charge.
• denial — A denial of something is a statement that it is not true, does not exist, or did not happen.
• objection — a reason or argument offered in disagreement, opposition, refusal, or disapproval.
• insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
• disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
• originality — the quality or state of being original.
• uniqueness — existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
• lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
• discordance — a discordant state; disagreement; discord.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
• eccentricity — an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
• recalcitrance — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.