belief vs sacerdotalism

sacerdotalism vs belief

belief and sacerdotalism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
sacerdotalism: a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God

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, public opinion, vox populi, revolutionism, 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)	sacerdotalism (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

Difference between belief and sacerdotalism

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