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(n)
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
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An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
Emotion; impression.
The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
Belief.
Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
(metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions.
A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
(v)
(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
(adj)
Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
(uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
The capability for rational thought.
The state or quality of being aware of something.
(uncountable) The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
A thorough understanding.
Thought; verbal noun of think.
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
(countable) A firmly held belief.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
The state of being certain.
The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.
Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
(chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).
The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another.
A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
The quality of being assertive.
(countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
The act of seeing or looking at something.
(uncountable) The sense or ability of sight.
A general thought, feeling, or sense.
A place or location.
A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
(countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
(figurative) Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
(figuratively) Amazing, astonishing; so surprising that one is almost, or figuratively, unable to believe.
Anything that is beyond understanding.
(figuratively) A chaotic or turbulent situation.
(Islam, countable) A believer in the Islamic faith.
(heraldry) A depiction of a handshake.
The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
(Philippines, education, uncountable) Ellipsis of values education.
(uncountable) Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence.
The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
Archaic spelling of belief. [Mental acceptance of a claim as true.]
The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
The quality of being demonstrable.
(rare) superstition
(religion, philosophy) Failure to believe; lack of belief.
(philosophy) A studied attitude of questioning and doubt.
(linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.
a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
an erroneous belief
Absence of faith.
(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of skepticism. [(philosophy) The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.]
The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
(of persons, states of mind, beliefs, etc.) Experiencing or harboring no doubts; entirely confident.