Belief vs. Token

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.

Tokennoun

Something serving as an expression of something else.

Tokennoun

A keepsake.

Tokennoun

A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.

Tokennoun

A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.

Tokennoun

A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.

Tokennoun

A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.

Tokennoun

Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.

Tokennoun

Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.

Tokennoun

An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.

Tokennoun

An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.

Tokennoun

A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.

Tokennoun

Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.

Tokennoun

A tally.

Tokennoun

(philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.

Tokennoun

(computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.

Tokennoun

(computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

Tokennoun

(computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.

Tokennoun

(grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.

Tokennoun

(corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.

Tokennoun

(medical) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.

Tokennoun

A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

Tokennoun

(printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

Tokennoun

(mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

Tokennoun

(mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.

Tokennoun

(rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.

Tokennoun

(weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.

Tokennoun

(Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Tokenadjective

Done as an indication or a pledge.

Tokenadjective

Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.

Tokenadjective

(of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.

Tokenverb

To betoken, indicate, portend, designate, denote

Tokenverb

To betroth

Tokenverb

(philosophy) To symbolize, instantiate

Tokennoun

Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

Tokennoun

A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir.

Tokennoun

Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc.

Tokennoun

A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

Tokennoun

A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

Tokennoun

Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

Tokennoun

A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Tokennoun

A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

Tokennoun

In a Jacquard loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.

Tokenverb

To betoken.

Tokennoun

an individual instance of a type of symbol;

Tokennoun

a metal or plastic disk that can be used (as a substitute for coins) in slot machines

Tokennoun

something of sentimental value

Tokenadjective

insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal);