Other forms: dogmas
A dogma is a belief laid down as true and not to be questioned. Church dogma, political dogma, question the dogma.
In theology it is a technical term for a doctrine formally defined; everywhere else it is an accusation, meaning a belief held past the point where evidence should have changed it. Note dogmatic, which is always a criticism; and that the Greek means an opinion or something that seems good.
1noundogmaA belief laid down as true and not to be questioned.
“The scientist refused to accept the old dogma and tested the theory herself.”
dogma is a fixed belief.
Greek dogma means an opinion, from dokein, to seem good. Doctrine and decent come from related roots.
Proto-Indo-European
*deḱ-
Ancient Greek
δόγμα — opinion, tenet
Latin
dogma — philosophical tenet
English, today
dogma
Built from
From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (“opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (“to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata. Compare decent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA