belief vs persuasion

persuasion vs belief

belief and persuasion both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
persuasion: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

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, 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)	persuasion (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action

Difference between belief and persuasion

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