BELIEVE vs BELIEF: NOUN
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- One's religious or moral convictions.
- Religious faith.
- The quality or state of believing.
- Something believed.
- Mental acceptance of a claim as truth regardless of supporting or contrary empirical evidence.
- A first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition.
- A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
- The thing believed; the object of belief.
- A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
- 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.
- Synonyms and Opinion, Conviction, etc. (see persuasion); credence, trust, credit, confidence. Doctrine.
- A creed; a formula embodying the essential doctrines of a religion or a church.
- The whole body of tenets held by the professors of any faith.
- Persuasion of the truth of a proposition, but with the consciousness that the positive evidence for it is insufficient or wanting; especially, assurance of the truth of what rests chiefly or solely upon authority.
- A conviction of the truth of a given proposition or an alleged fact, resting upon grounds insufficient to constitute positive knowledge.
- Confidence reposed in any person or thing; faith; trust: as, a child's belief in his parents.
- Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.
- Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something.
- The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another.
- A vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- Any cognitive content held as true
- That which is believed; an object of belief.
BELIEVE vs BELIEF: VERB
- Judge or regard; look upon; judge
- Be confident about something
- Follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer
- Accept as true; take to be true
- To think something is true without having proof or empirical evidence.
- To accept that someone is telling the truth.
- To accept as true.
- To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
- To consider likely.
- Credit with veracity
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BELIEVE vs BELIEF: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
- To think; to suppose.
- To believe that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages.
- To accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.
- To accept as true or real.
- To have an opinion; think.
- To have confidence in the truth or value of something.
- To have faith, confidence, or trust.
- To have firm faith, especially religious faith.
- To credit with veracity.
- To expect or suppose; think.
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BELIEVE vs BELIEF: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider.
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BELIEVE vs BELIEF: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Judge
- Follow a credo
- Have a faith
- Be a believer
- Judge or regard
- Take to be true
- Accept as true
- Look upon
- To expect or hope with confidence; trust.
- To give credence to (a person making a statement, anything said, etc.).
- To credit upon the ground of authority, testimony, argument, or any other ground than complete demonstration; accept as true; give credence to. See belief.
- To be persuaded of the truth of anything; accept a doctrine, principle, system, etc., as true, or as an object of faith: with in: as, “I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,” etc., Apostles' Crecd; to believe in Buddhism. See belief.
- To exercise trust or confidence; rely through faith: generally with on.
- To have faith or confidence.
- To be of opinion; think; understand: as, I believe he has left the city.
- (idiom) (believe (one's) eyes) To trust what one has seen.
- (idiom) (believe (one's) ears) To trust what one has heard.
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BELIEVE vs BELIEF: RELATED WORDS
- Thought, Belief, Assume, Suggest, Hope, Expect, Know, Convinced, Presume, Argue, Say, Conceive, Trust, Consider, Think
- Worldview, Philosophy, Credo, Determination, Perception, Believe, Believing, Expectation, Assumption, Faith, Impression, Feeling, Tenet, Dogma, Notion
BELIEVE vs BELIEF: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Speculate, Thought, Belief, Suggest, Hope, Expect, Know, Convinced, Presume, Argue, Say, Conceive, Trust, Consider, Think
- Commitment, Principle, Ethos, Confidence, Worldview, Philosophy, Perception, Believe, Believing, Expectation, Assumption, Faith, Feeling, Tenet, Dogma
BELIEVE vs BELIEF: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- We also believe, that free stuff is great.
- SCHIFF: And George Papadopoulos you believe was there?
- Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
- This God who gives man the freedom to believe or not to believe is also the God of the Christian sects.
- Christian faith: what you believe about God, and what you believe is His will for the human race.
- Hell is believe or believe not, accept or reject.
- How should we handle situations where people in authority believe that thepotential rewards justify what they believe to be relatively minor risks?
- You can believe whatever you want to believe and practice your religion openly without fear of persecution.
- Those that want to believe that this is a partisan exercise will believe it.
- At some point, though, it will still be a CHOICE to believe or not believe.
- Prior Experience Negative Positive life, you may have developed traumatic event serves to confirm this belief, especially may have developed the belief trusted.
- If facts are alleged upon information and belief, the source of the information and belief shall be stated.
- In fact, it may in fact be rational for a person who has not had experiences that compel belief to withhold belief in God.
- The danger in the belief that good students do their homework is the moral judgment that tends to accompany this belief.
- Though he distinguishes among belief, desire to believe, and sure knowledge, his words affirm the validity of belief as a part of faith.
- Avoid Belief and Judgment Statements A belief or judgment statement is nothing more than your opinion without the support of facts.
- Hinduism, as a religion, incorporates all forms of belief without mandating the selection or elimination of any one single belief.
- The Church will confirm an apparition as worthy of belief, but belief is never required by divine faith.
- Sometimes new strands of belief are introduced, but rarely is an earlier belief pulled out and replaced.
- Data also evealed that antitongue belief groupsalteredtheir beliefsmore than protongue belief groups.
BELIEVE vs BELIEF: QUESTIONS
- What did Enlightenment thinkers believe about government?
- Do Unitarian Universalist Christians believe in God?
- What do Republicans believe about energy resources?
- What does faithbridge believe about intrinsic value?
- What do paleontologists believe happened to Gigantopithecus?
- What do Scientologists believe about reincarnation?
- What do Presbyterians believe about predestination?
- Who sings the song when you believe in the movie when you believe?
- Will Naomi ever believe Liam will never believe that they slept together?
- Do benighted people really believe what they believe?
- Is Einstein's belief in intelligent design religious?
- Does belief in the paranormal increase emotional intelligence?
- How can we attenuate unwarranted belief perseverance?
- How do congruent findings affect belief perseverance?
- Do people with belief superiority overestimate knowledge?
- Can belief systems reproduce and maintain themselves?
- What is political belief or activity discrimination?
- Are all possibilities of belief revision commensurable?
- Does involuntariness of belief compromise the evidential value of belief?
- Was the belief in eternal punishment in Hell a pagan belief?