belief vs school of thought

school of thought vs belief

belief and school of thought both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
belief	Yes	No	No	No
school of thought	Yes	No	No	No

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
school of thought: 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, philosophy, 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, 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)	school of thought (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

Difference between belief and school of thought

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