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belief, n.
(beliefs)
freq. cnt. 25
more info any cognitive content held as true
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 19 freq. cnt.: 19

belief
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believe
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unbelief
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hypernym
content, cognitive content, mental object
hyponym
conviction, strong belief, article of faith faith, trust doctrine, philosophy, ism, philosophical system, school of thought philosophy expectation, outlook, prospect fetishism, fetichism geneticism meliorism opinion, sentiment, view, persuasion, thought autotelism originalism pacifism, pacificism religion, faith, religious belief public opinion, opinion, popular opinion, vox populi revolutionism sacerdotalism spiritualism spiritual world, spiritual domain, unseen suffragism supernaturalism superstition, superstitious notion supremacism theory theosophism thought totemism tribalism values vampirism individualism spiritual being, supernatural being
more info a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
<noun.cognition>   freq. cnt.: 62 freq. cnt.: 28 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 6

belief feeling impression notion opinion

sample sentences

"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"
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feel
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impressionistic
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believe
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idea, thought
hyponym
presence effect first blush suspicion, hunch, intuition