belief vs totemism

totemism vs belief

belief and totemism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
totemism: belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem

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, theory, theosophism, thought, tribalism, values, vampirism, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.

belief (noun)	totemism (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

Difference between belief and totemism

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