belief vs meliorism

meliorism vs belief

belief and meliorism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
meliorism: the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

Other hyponyms of belief include article of faith, conviction, strong belief, faith, trust, doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought, philosophy, expectation, outlook, prospect, fetichism, fetishism, geneticism, 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)	meliorism (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	the belief that the world can be made better by human effort
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

Difference between belief and meliorism

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