belief vs vampirism

vampirism vs belief

belief and vampirism both are nouns.

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

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

belief: any cognitive content held as true
vampirism: belief in the existence of vampires

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, totemism, tribalism, values, individualism, spiritual being, supernatural being.

belief (noun)	vampirism (noun)
any cognitive content held as true	the actions or practices of a vampire
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	belief in the existence of vampires

Difference between belief and vampirism

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