Belief vs. Conviction

Beliefnoun

Mental acceptance of a claim as true.

Beliefnoun

Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

Beliefnoun

(countable) Something believed.

Beliefnoun

(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

Beliefnoun

(uncountable) Religious faith.

Beliefnoun

(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

Beliefnoun

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; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

Beliefnoun

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

Beliefnoun

The thing believed; the object of belief.

Beliefnoun

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

Beliefnoun

any cognitive content held as true

Beliefnoun

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

Belief

A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false.

Convictionnoun

(countable) A firmly held belief.

Convictionnoun

(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.

Convictionnoun

(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.

Convictionnoun

(uncountable) The state of being wholly convinced.

Convictionnoun

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

Convictionnoun

A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.

Convictionnoun

The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

Convictionnoun

The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

Convictionnoun

an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

Convictionnoun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;

Conviction

In law, a conviction is the verdict that usually results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime. The opposite of a conviction is an acquittal (that is, ).