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belief - any cognitive content held as true |
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disbelief,
unbelief a rejection of belief
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cognitive content,
content,
mental object the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
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article of faith,
conviction,
strong belief (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided
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faith,
trust loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
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doctrine,
ism,
philosophical system,
philosophy,
school of thought a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
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philosophy any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
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expectation,
outlook,
prospect belief about (or mental picture of) the future
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fetichism,
fetishism sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs)
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geneticism the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically
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meliorism the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
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opinion,
persuasion,
sentiment,
thought,
view the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)
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autotelism belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification
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originalism the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it
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pacificism,
pacifism the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
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faith,
religion,
religious belief loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
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opinion,
popular opinion,
public opinion,
vox populi the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)
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revolutionism a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles
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sacerdotalism a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God
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spiritualism the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium)
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spiritual domain,
spiritual world,
unseen a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit
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suffragism the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women)
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supernaturalism the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
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superstition,
superstitious notion an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
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supremacism the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others; "white supremacism"
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theory a belief that can guide behavior; "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"
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theosophism belief in theosophy
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thought the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"
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totemism belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem
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tribalism the beliefs of a tribal society
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values beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); "he has very conservatives values"
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vampirism the actions or practices of a vampire
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individualism the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
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spiritual being,
supernatural being an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
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