belief vs ism

belief and ism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
ism: 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, doctrine, 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)	ism (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

Difference between belief and ism

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