Hypernyms for "belief"
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article of faith
autotelism
conviction
doctrine
effect
expectation
faith
fetichism
fetishism
first blush
geneticism
hunch
individualism
intuition
ism
meliorism
opinion
originalism
outlook
pacificism
pacifism
persuasion
philosophical system
philosophy
popular opinion
presence
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
suspicion
theory
theosophism
thought
totemism
tribalism
trust
unseen
values
vampirism
view
vox populi
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.