Noun

• S: (n) opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought (a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty) "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) belief (any cognitive content held as true)
• S: (n) conviction, strong belief, article of faith (an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence)
• S: (n) faith, trust (complete confidence in a person or plan etc) "he cherished the faith of a good woman"; "the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust"
• S: (n) doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
• S: (n) philosophy (any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation) "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
• S: (n) expectation, outlook, prospect (belief about (or mental picture of) the future)
• S: (n) fetishism, fetichism (a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish))
• S: (n) geneticism (the belief that all human characteristics are determined genetically)
• S: (n) meliorism (the belief that the world can be made better by human effort)
• S: (n) opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought (a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty) "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
• S: (n) autotelism (belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification)
• S: (n) originalism (the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it)
• S: (n) pacifism, pacificism (the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration)
• S: (n) religion, faith, religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny) "he lost his faith but not his morality"
• S: (n) public opinion, popular opinion, opinion, vox populi (a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people) "he asked for a poll of public opinion"
• S: (n) revolutionism (a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles)
• S: (n) sacerdotalism (a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God)
• S: (n) spiritualism (the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium))
• S: (n) spiritual world, spiritual domain, unseen (a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit)
• S: (n) suffragism (the belief that the right to vote should be extended (as to women))
• S: (n) supernaturalism (a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding)
• S: (n) superstition, superstitious notion (an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear)
• S: (n) supremacism (the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others) "white supremacism"
• S: (n) theory (a belief that can guide behavior) "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"
• S: (n) theosophism (belief in theosophy)
• S: (n) thought (the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual) "19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"
• S: (n) totemism (belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem)
• S: (n) tribalism (the beliefs of a tribal society)
• S: (n) values (beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)) "he has very conservatives values"
• S: (n) vampirism (belief in the existence of vampires)
• S: (n) individualism (a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence)
• S: (n) spiritual being, supernatural being (an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events)
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) opinion, view (a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof) "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page"
• S: (n) public opinion, popular opinion, opinion, vox populi (a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people) "he asked for a poll of public opinion"
• S: (n) opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement (the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision) "opinions are usually written by a single judge"
• S: (n) opinion, ruling (the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself))
• S: (n) impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion (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"