Hoideology

Many people ask me, “What does hoideology mean?” 

Hoideology is combining “hold” and “ideology.” I created this term as the name for this website. Coincidentally, my last name also spells “Ho,” a typical Hong Kong-style English spelling of my family’s Chinese last name 何.

“To hold ideology” means to keep in mind, assert, and have regard for a set of beliefs and values that are important to oneself. 

As a Christian psychologist and researcher, I believe that forming and holding onto the right kinds of beliefs and values is very important to healthy human living and being. Thus, I want this website to provide such right kinds of beliefs, values, and most important, knowledge, and research findings that are important to healthy human living and being for my readers and audiences.

Notes. We are familiar with ideology. According to the American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), ideology is “a set of doctrines or beliefs that are shared by the members of a social group….” That’s easy. We all can understand that. The word hold has a larger number of meanings. According to the AHD, to hold as a transitive verb has 10 entries of meaning (e.g., to keep, to maintain, to carry out); as an intransitive verb it has 7 entries of meaning (e.g., to withstand, to continue, to stop); as a noun it has 9 entries of meaning (e.g., grasping, control, bond). There are 9 phrasal verbs with to hold (e.g., hold back, hold down, hold forth). There are 14 idioms used with the word hold(e.g., get hold of, on hold, hold water).