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n. The mental act, condition, or habit of placing trust or confidence in another: My belief in you is as strong as ever.

n. Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something: His explanation of what happened defies belief.

n. Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons.

n. Mental acceptance of a claim as truth regardless of supporting or contrary empirical evidence.

n. Something believed.

n. The quality or state of believing.

n. Religious faith.

n. One's religious or moral convictions.

n. 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.

n. A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

n. The thing believed; the object of belief.

n. A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

n. Confidence reposed in any person or thing; faith; trust: as, a child's belief in his parents.

n. A conviction of the truth of a given proposition or an alleged fact, resting upon grounds insufficient to constitute positive knowledge.

n. 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.

n. That which is believed; an object of belief.

n. The whole body of tenets held by the professors of any faith.

n. A creed; a formula embodying the essential doctrines of a religion or a church.

n. Synonyms and Opinion, Conviction, etc. (see persuasion); credence, trust, credit, confidence. Doctrine.

n. a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

n. any cognitive content held as true

"Just as the significance of belief in God can vary with social context, with the result that it can make little sense to think of ˜belief in God™ as a meme, so the function of some DNA sequence can vary with organic context, with the result that it makes little sense to identify some sequence type as a gene for the purposes of evolutionary analysis."

conviction    opinion    creed    primary belief   

disbelief    unbelief    believe    beyond belief    self-belief   

reliance    assurance    trust    credence    opinion    persuasion    conviction    confidence    faith    doctrine   

Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    beef    brief    chief    debrief    disbelief    fief    grief   

faith    opinion    religion    conviction    idea    tradition    sentiment    conception    attitude    hope