belief vs faith

faith vs belief

belief and faith both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
faith: complete confidence in a person or plan etc

Other hyponyms of belief include article of faith, conviction, strong belief, 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, 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)	faith (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
	complete confidence in a person or plan etc
	an institution to express belief in a divine power

Difference between belief and faith

Words related to "faith"

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