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faith
 [feyth] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in a higher being; community of believers |
| Synonyms: | canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, doxy, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, piousness, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theism, theology, worship |
| Antonyms: | agnosticism, denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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credulous, God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, 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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| Concept: | [Religious knowledge.] Theology. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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-nouns
theology (natural and revealed); theogony, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed (belief); article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith., theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers.
-adjectives
theological, religious; denominational; sectarian.
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Example Sentences
- For theism itself is based on exactly this foundational premise.
- Theism is different in kind from both of the examples you gave, since it cannot be robust or reliable, even in principle.
- In a civic religion the country is celebrated as a quasi-sacred community based not on shared theism but on generic citizenship.
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