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convictions
[kuhn-vik-shuhn] 
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conviction
[kuhn-vik-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, opinion |
| Synonyms: | confidence, creed, doctrine, dogma, eye, faith, feeling, judgment call, mind, persuasion, principle, reliance, say so, sentiment, slant, tenet, view |
| Main Entry: | assurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
| Synonyms: | aggressiveness, aplomb, arrogance, assuredness, audacity, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, conviction, coolness, courage, effrontery, faith, firmness, impudence, nerve, poise, positiveness, presumption, security, self-confidence, self-reliance, sureness, surety, temerity, trust |
| Antonyms: | confusion, distrust, doubt, fear, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, mindset, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, postulation, presumption, presupposition, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief; undertaking for belief |
| Synonyms: | attempt, conviction, creed, enterprise, faith, goal, ideal, intention, movement, object, objective, plan, principles, purpose |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive assurance |
| Synonyms: | all sewn up, authoritativeness, belief, certitude, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, definiteness, dogmatism, faith, firmness, indubitableness, inevitability, lock*, lockup, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, setup, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure bet, sure thing, surefire, sureness, surety, trust, validity, wrap-up |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, questionableness, uncertainty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cogency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | bearing, concern, connection, conviction, convincingness, force, forcefulness, pertinence, point, potency, power, punch, relevance, strength, validity, validness |
| Antonyms: | impotence, ineffectiveness, invalidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | conclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, decision |
| Synonyms: | agreement, conviction, corollary, deduction, determination, illation, inference, opinion, ratiocination, resolution, resolve, sequitur, settlement, verdict |
| Antonyms: | concept, theory |
| Main Entry: | creed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principles |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, canon, catechism, church, confession, conviction, cult, doctrine, dogma, faith, ideology, persuasion, profession, religion, tenet, weltanschauung |
| Main Entry: | determination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance |
| Synonyms: | assurance, backbone*, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, constancy, conviction, courage, dauntlessness, decision, dedication, doggedness, dogmatism, drive, energy, fearlessness, firm-ness, fortitude, grit, guts*, hardihood, heart*, independence, indomitability, intrepidity, nerve*, obstinacy, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, self-confidence, single-mindedness, spine, spunk*, steadfastness, stiff upper lip, stubbornness, tenacity, valor, willpower |
| Antonyms: | disinterest, doubt, hesitation, irresolution, spinelessness, vacillation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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