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belief vs thought

thought vs belief

belief and thought both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
belief Yes No No No
thought Yes No No No
As nouns, thought is a hyponym of belief; that is, thought is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than belief:
  • belief: any cognitive content held as true
  • thought: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
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, 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, totemism, tribalism, values, vampirism, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.
As nouns, thought is a hypernym of belief; that is, thought is a word with a broader meaning than belief:
  • belief: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
  • thought: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
Other hypernyms of belief include idea.
belief (noun) thought (noun)
any cognitive content held as true the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
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