It is a tenet of contemporary psychology that an individual's mental health is supported by having good social networks.
Synonym
precept formal
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dogma disapproving
Meaning of tenet in English
(Definition of tenet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of tenet
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But it found considerable resonance in many of the basic tenets of folk attitudes and created a strong bond between village and nation.
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Instead, politics turns faith into dogma and results in deviance from the noble tenets of "original" faith and, finally, fails to universalize ethics.
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A key tenet of local biology is that the body is inextricably linked with place.
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The comparative national framework reveals that for the local level, the central tenets of liberalism in ideology and practice were striking in their similarity.
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This is because of the well-tested tenet that fixed-income investment returns cannot be expected to match equity returns based on historical evidence.
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They faced ancient and distinguished cultures, many of whose tenets were diametrically opposed to those they advocated.
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It does not take a great deal of reasoning to see why these tenets are at the very least indifferent to the practice of puja.
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Interestingly, both positions are in keeping with cognitive linguistic tenets.
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But was 'de-commodification' ever a key social democratic tenet?
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Our work on cross-modal processing has employed such methods, obtaining results both in keeping with and at odds with the authors' basic tenets.
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Specifically, it supports tenets (2*) and (3*), that non-personal objects have no intrinsic value, and that by loving such objects we mix ourselves with them.
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The safety of survivors of domestic violence is the central tenet of this research project.
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There are a number of other tenets associated with the cognitive linguistic enterprise which inform the present study.
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Ironically, however, the increasingly powerful science used in patient care may undermine adherence to this tenet.
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One of the central tenets used to describe welfare economics-consumer sovereignty-is that consumers are the best judges of their own welfare (4;17).
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Collocations with tenet
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basic tenet
The model is built on the basic tenet of binomial dichotomy.
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central tenet
The safety of survivors of domestic violence is the central tenet of this research project.
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core tenet
It is argued that as a core tenet of the practice experience it is timely and appropriate to review perceptions of risk and uncertainty.
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