religious belief vs Buddhism

Buddhism vs religious belief

religious belief and Buddhism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
religious belief	Yes	No	No	No
Buddhism	Yes	No	No	No

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

religious belief: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
Buddhism: the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth

Other hyponyms of religious belief include apophatism, cataphatism, analogy, doctrine of analogy, cult, cultus, religious cult, cult, ecclesiasticism, mysticism, religious mysticism, nature worship, revealed religion, theism, heathenism, pagan religion, paganism, Christian religion, Christianity, Unitarianism, Hindooism, Hinduism, Brahmanism, Brahminism, Jainism, Sikhism, Hsuan Chiao, Taoism, Shinto, Shintoism, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Mithraicism, Mithraism, Mazdaism, Zoroastrianism, Bahaism, Asian shamanism, shamanism, shamanism, Wicca, Saivism.

religious belief (noun)	Buddhism (noun)
a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny	the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth
	a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha

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