minority view
Position few hold
A minority view is an opinion or position held by fewer people than the prevailing consensus.
The term appears in legal contexts, where a dissenting judge writes a minority opinion, and in broader discourse about ideas that lack mainstream acceptance: The minority view among climate scientists holds that warming is primarily natural.
A minority view isn't necessarily wrong—today's minority view may become tomorrow's consensus.
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- dissenting voiceOne expressing disagreement publicly
- outlierDistant data point
- fringeOutermost edge or margin
- fringe theoryUnorthodox, unaccepted explanation
unconventional · contrarian · devil's advocate · heresy · maverick · lone wolf · underdog · rebel · heterodox · niche · radical · alternative · thinking outside the box · outsider · swimming upstream · protest · deviant · unorthodox
- objectionsobjection, complaint, protest, refutation, demur
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- HalachaShabbat, kosher, brit milah, tefillin, beit din
- TalmudMishnah, daf, Seder, sugya, folio
- dissentsdissenting opinion
minority viewconsensus
General group agreement
majority opinion · popular opinion · general consensus · public opinion · conventional wisdom
minority, view, minor, minors, minorities, minorly, minute, diminish, diminished