Believe vs. Belief

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)

Believeverb

(transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.

Believeverb

(intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

Believeverb

To consider likely

Believeverb

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.

Believeverb

To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.

Believeverb

To think; to suppose.

Believeverb

accept as true; take to be true;

Believeverb

judge or regard; look upon; judge;

Believeverb

be confident about something;

Believeverb

follow a credo; have a faith; be a believer;

Believeverb

credit with veracity;

Believeverb

accept that (something) is true, especially without proof

Believeverb

accept the statement of (someone) as true

Believeverb

have religious faith

Believeverb

feel sure that (someone) is capable of doing something

Believeverb

hold (something) as an opinion; think

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.