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How to pronounce belief in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms feeling, impression, notion, opinion
Type of thought, idea
Has types hunch, intuition, suspicion, first blush, presence, effect
Derivation believe


it strengthened my belief in his sincerity.
Type Words
Type of mental object, cognitive content, content
Has types doctrine, expectation, faith, fetichism, fetishism, vox populi, autotelism, conviction, totemism, tribalism, trust, unseen, values, vampirism, view, article of faith, geneticism, individualism, ism, meliorism, opinion, originalism, outlook, pacificism, pacifism, persuasion, philosophical system, philosophy, popular opinion, prospect, public opinion, religion, religious belief, revolutionism, sacerdotalism, school of thought, sentiment, spiritual being, spiritual domain, spiritual world, spiritualism, strong belief, suffragism, supernatural being, supernaturalism, superstition, superstitious notion, supremacism, theory, theosophism, thought
Derivation believe

Examples of belief

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It starts with the belief that the business model of a tech incubator is broken.
From the businessweek.com
Leaving school too early in the belief that as a dyslexic I wouldn't pass exams.
From the yorkpress.co.uk
Through sheer determination, courage, incredible will power and enormous belief.
From the smh.com.au
Belief comes from within and it's something which I've always had a fair bit of.
From the smh.com.au
Yesterday, there was a belief the stalemate will be resolved through compromise.
From the adelaidenow.com.au
My belief is that taxpayers can withstand a 50-50 split with the tax collectors.
From the forbes.com
What is less understandable is the belief that career advice is some magic wand.
From the guardian.co.uk
When did you develop the belief that silence was safe, and speech was too scary?
From the guardian.co.uk
The damage this man has caused the labour party with this book is beyond belief.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Any cognitive content held as true
  • Impression: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"
  • (believing) the cognitive process that leads to convictions; "seeing is believing"
  • Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
  • Belief is the second album of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb. It was the first album recorded with drummer Julian Beeston (who took over from David Gooday), and Flood took over as producer from Phil Harding. It was released by Mute Records on .
  • Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective stemming from symbolic interactionism. The term was first adapted into sociology from the theatre by Erving Goffman, who developed most of the related terminology and ideas in his 1959 book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. ...
  • "Belief" was the second single from John Mayer's 2006 album Continuum. The song features Ben Harper on guitar.
  • Mental acceptance of a claim as truth regardless of supporting or contrary empirical evidence; Something believed; The quality or state of believing; Religious faith; One's religious or moral convictions
  • (beliefs) (p. 67) specific statements that people hold to be true