belief vs theory

theory vs belief

belief and theory both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
theory: a belief that can guide behavior

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, sacerdotalism, spiritualism, spiritual domain, spiritual world, unseen, suffragism, supernaturalism, superstition, superstitious notion, supremacism, theosophism, thought, totemism, tribalism, values, vampirism, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.

belief (noun)	theory (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
	a belief that can guide behavior

Difference between belief and theory

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