belief vs conviction

conviction vs belief

belief and conviction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
belief	Yes	No	No	No
conviction	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hyponyms of belief include article of faith, 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)	conviction (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

Difference between belief and conviction

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