About The Word Belief
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Belief
Belief Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Belief?
[n] a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"
[n] any cognitive content held as true Synonyms | Synonyms for Belief: feeling | impression | notion | opinion Related Terms | Find terms related to Belief: a belief | acceptance | acquiescence | arrogance | article of faith | assent | assurance | assuredness | axiom | canon | certainty | certitude | cocksureness | concept | confidence | confidentness | conviction | courage | credence | credibility | credit | credo | creed | dependence | doctrine | dogma | eye | faith | feeling | fundamental | hubris | idea | intuition | judgement | law | maxim | mind | opinion | orthodoxy | overconfidence | oversureness | overweening | overweeningness | persuasion | poise | pomposity | positiveness | precept | pride | principle | principles | reliance | religion | religious belief | religious faith | security | self-assurance | self-confidence | self-importance | self-reliance | sentiment | settled belief | subjective certainty | sureness | surety | system of beliefs | teaching | tenet | theology | tradition | trust | trustworthiness | view See Also | article of faith | autotelism | cognitive content | content | conviction | doctrine | effect | expectation | faith | fetichism | fetishism | hunch | idea | individualism | intuition | ism | meliorism | mental object | originalism | outlook | pacifism | persuasion | philosophy | popular opinion | presence | prospect | public opinion | religion | religious belief | sacerdotalism | school of thought | sentiment | spiritual being | spiritual world | spiritualism | strong belief | supernatural being | supernaturalism | superstition | superstitious notion | suspicion | theory | theosophy | thought | totemism | tribalism | trust | unseen | values | view | vox populi Belief In Webster's Dictionary \Be*lief"\, n. [OE. bileafe, bileve; cf. AS. gele['a]fa.
See {Believe}.]
1. Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance
of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without
immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or
testimony; partial or full assurance without positive
knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction;
confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our
senses.
Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest
suspicion to the fullest assurance. --Reid.
2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
No man can attain [to] belief by the bare
contemplation of heaven and earth. --Hooker.
3. The thing believed; the object of belief.
Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of
fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. --Bacon.
4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of
any class of views; doctrine; creed.
In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief
was subject upon its first promulgation. --Hooker.
{Ultimate belief}, a first principle incapable of proof; an
intuitive truth; an intuition. --Sir W. Hamilton.
Syn: Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion.
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