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belief vs philosophy

philosophy vs belief

belief and philosophy both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
belief Yes No No No
philosophy Yes No No No
As nouns, philosophy is a hyponym of belief; that is, philosophy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than belief:
  • belief: any cognitive content held as true
  • philosophy: 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, ism, philosophical system, school of thought, 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) philosophy (noun)
any cognitive content held as true the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
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