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Belief

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Conviction 76% connected

The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

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Doctrine 76% connected

Teaching; instruction.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Expectation 76% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Faith 76% connected

Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting solely and implicitly on his authority and veracity; reliance on…

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fetichism 76% connected

Alt. of Fetishism

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Fetishism 76% connected

The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches.

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Hunch 76% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Individualism 76% connected

The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

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Intuition 76% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Ism 76% connected

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

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Meliorism 76% connected

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Outlook 76% connected

To face down; to outstare.

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Persuasion 76% connected

The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines t…

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Philosophy 76% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Presence 76% connected

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

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Prospect 76% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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Religion 76% connected

The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedien…

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Revolutionism 76% connected

The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines or principles.

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Sacerdotalism 76% connected

The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.

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Sentiment 76% connected

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

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Spiritualism 76% connected

The quality or state of being spiritual.

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Supernaturalism 76% connected

The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.

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Superstition 76% connected

An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.

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Suspicion 76% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

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Theory 76% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Theosophism 76% connected

Belief in theosophy.

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Totemism 76% connected

The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

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Tribalism 76% connected

The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.

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Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Unseen 76% connected

Not seen or discovered.

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Vampirism 76% connected

Belief in the existence of vampires.

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View 76% connected

The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Believe 74% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Believe 74% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Impressionistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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Impressionistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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Feeling 92% connected

of Feel

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Impression 92% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Notion 92% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Opinion 92% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Disbelief 94% connected

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent,…

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Disbelief 94% connected

The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent,…

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