Synonyms for philosophy
fɪˈlɒs ə fiphi·los·o·phy

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.2 / 13 votes

1. doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ismnoun

   a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, philosophical system, school of thought, ism

2. philosophynoun

   the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

   Synonyms:
   ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

3. philosophynoun

   any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation

   "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"

   Synonyms:
   ism, philosophical system, school of thought, doctrine

Matched Categories

1. • Belief
   • Humanistic Discipline

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   science of causes or first principles, science of the absolute, the science of sciences

2. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   principles (of any department of knowledge), laws

3. philosophynoun

   Synonyms:
   hypothesis, theory, system, doctrine

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "philosophy":

   filosofía, philosophical, ethos, philo, thinking, philosopher, logic

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1. Ronald Reagan:

   My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose. Somehow we win out.

2. Ben Carson:

   It reminds us that there are those out there who have a thirst for innocent blood in an attempt to spread their philosophy and their will across this globe, and we must redouble our efforts and our resolve to resist them. Not only to contain them, but to eliminate that kind of hatred in the world.

3. Ayn Rand:

   My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

4. John Adams:

   I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

5. Christopher Kang:

   I think that is really striking. We would not have used clerks to talk about a judge's political philosophy.