tenet

noun

USTEN-it/ˈtɛnɪt/

Pluraltenets

Often confused with tenant

1 meaning of tenet

1
nouncountable
An opinion, belief, or principle held as absolute truth, especially by an organization.
A central tenet of the party is that taxes should remain low.
The organization's founding tenets have remained unchanged for nearly a century.
Similarprinciple, belief, doctrine, precept, creed

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Origin

Borrowed from Latin tenet ("he, she, or it holds"), a form of the verb teneō ("to hold; to have"), which is also related to the word tenable.