belief vs doctrine

doctrine vs belief

belief and doctrine both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
doctrine: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

Other hyponyms of belief include article of faith, conviction, strong belief, faith, trust, 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)	doctrine (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

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