belief vs public opinion

public opinion vs belief

belief and public opinion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
belief	Yes	No	No	No
public opinion	Yes	No	No	No

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
public opinion: a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people

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, pacifism, faith, religion, religious belief, opinion, popular 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)	public opinion (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

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