Tenet, n.
Etymology: [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for tenet; he lists it under doctrine.
Where he writes about it:
Tenet is simply that which is held, and is applied to a single item of belief; it is a neutral word, neither approving nor condemning; we speak of the doctrines of our own church; of the tenets of others. — from doctrine
Antonyms
none given