belief vs pacifism

pacifism vs belief

belief and pacifism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
pacifism: the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration

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, meliorism, opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought, view, autotelism, originalism, pacificism, 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)	pacifism (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration

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