belief

1. Any cognitive content held as true (synset 105950141)
   is a type of: cognitive content, content, mental object - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
   subtypes:

   • article of faith, conviction, strong belief - an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
   • faith, trust - complete confidence in a person or plan etc
   • doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
   • philosophy - any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
   • expectation, outlook, prospect - belief about (or mental picture of) the future
   • fetichism, fetishism - a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish)
   • geneticism - the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically
   • meliorism - the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
   • opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought, view - a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
   • autotelism - belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification
   • originalism - the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it
   • pacificism, pacifism - the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
   • faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
   • opinion, popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi - a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people
   • revolutionism - a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles
   • sacerdotalism - a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God
   • spiritualism - the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
   • spiritual domain, spiritual world, unseen - a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
   • suffragism - the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women)
   • supernaturalism - a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding
   • superstition, superstitious notion - an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
   • supremacism - the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others
   • theory - a belief that can guide behavior
   • theosophism - belief in theosophy
   • thought - the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
   • totemism - belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem
   • tribalism - the beliefs of a tribal society
   • values - beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)
   • vampirism - belief in the existence of vampires
   • individualism - a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
   • spiritual being, supernatural being - an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
2. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed (synset 105925333)
   "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"
   is a type of: idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
   subtypes:

   • presence - the impression that something is present
   • effect - an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived)
   • first blush - at the first glimpse or impression
   • hunch, intuition, suspicion - an impression that something might be the case
   same as: feeling, impression, notion, opinion

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