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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust in something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, allegiance, assent, assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, constancy, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, dependence, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, hope, loyalty, reliance, stock, store, sureness, surety, troth, truth, truthfulness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, doubt, misgiving, skepticism, suspicion |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, credulous, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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| 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: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something regarded as true |
| Synonyms: | assumption, concept, credence, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, fundamental, gospel, gospel truth, hypothesis, idea, ideology, law, opinion, postulate, precept, principle, say-so, tenet, theorem, theory |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, nonbelief |
| 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: | church |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious belief, group |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, body, chapter, communion, congregation, connection, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, faction, faith, gathering, ism, order, persuasion, religion, schism, sect, society |
| Main Entry: | communion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sacrament in church; body of believers sharing a sacrament |
| Synonyms: | Eucharist, Lord's Supper, Mass, breaking of bread, church, creed, denomination, faith, persuasion, religion, sacrament |
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