belief vs article of faith

article of faith vs belief

belief and article of faith both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
belief	Yes	No	No	No
article of faith	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, article of faith is a hyponym of belief; that is, article of faith is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than belief:

belief: any cognitive content held as true
article of faith: an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

Other hyponyms of belief include conviction, strong belief, faith, trust, doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought, philosophy, expectation, outlook, prospect, fetichism, fetishism, geneticism, meliorism, opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought, view, autotelism, originalism, pacificism, pacifism, faith, religion, religious belief, opinion, popular opinion, public opinion, vox populi, revolutionism, sacerdotalism, spiritualism, spiritual domain, spiritual world, unseen, suffragism, supernaturalism, superstition, superstitious notion, supremacism, theory, theosophism, thought, totemism, tribalism, values, vampirism, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.

belief (noun)	article of faith (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	(Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided

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