'Belief' definitions:
Definition of 'belief'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
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" [syn: impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion]
Definition of 'Belief'
From: GCIDE
- Belief \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. [1913 Webster]
- Belief admits of all degrees, from the slightest suspicion to the fullest assurance. --Reid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Theol.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. [1913 Webster]
- No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. [1913 Webster]
- Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. [1913 Webster]
- In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Credence; trust; reliance; assurance; opinion. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'belief'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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