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doxastic

/dɒkˈsæstɪk/adjective, noun

doxastic is spelled D-O-X-A-S-T-I-C: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, doxastic means “Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion or belief” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in doxastic?

Letters8: D-O-X-A-S-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is doxastic?

Doxastic appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce doxastic?

  • /dɒkˈsæstɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-doxastic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of doxastic

  • more doxastic comparative
  • most doxastic superlative
  • doxastics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does doxastic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or depending on opinion or belief.

noun

  1. 1

    A conjectural statement or utterance.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Doxastic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense related to opinion:

LanguageWords
Frenchdoxastique

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does doxastic come from?

From Ancient Greek δοξασία (doxasía, “belief, opinion, conviction”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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