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Beliefful
Beliefful Be*lief"ful, a. Having belief or faith.
Disbelief
Disbelief Dis*be*lief", n. 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, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. --Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. --Carlyle. Syn: Distrust; unbelief; incredulity; doubt; skepticism. -- Disbelief, Unbelief. Unbelief is a mere failure to admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of inquiry; a unbeliever has the proofs before him, and incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is usually open to conviction; disbelief is already convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects. Men often tell a story in such a manner that we regard everything they say with unbelief. Familiarity with the worst parts of human nature often leads us into a disbelief in many good qualities which really exist among men.
Make-belief
Make-belief Make"-be*lief`, n. A feigning to believe; make believe. --J. H. Newman.
Misbelief
Misbelief Mis`be*lief", n. Erroneous or false belief.
Ultimate belief
Ultimate Ul"ti*mate, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.] 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. --Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. --Addison. 2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. --Coleridge. 3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter. Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. Ultimate belief. See under Belief. Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass. Syn: Final; conclusive. See Final.

Meaning of Belief from wikipedia

- A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the universe is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "belief"...
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- Various theistic positions can involve belief in a God or "gods". They include: Henotheism, belief in the supremacy of one god without denying the existence...
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- Basic beliefs (also commonly called foundational beliefs or core beliefs) are, under the epistemological view called foundationalism, the axioms of a belief...
- Beyond Belief may refer to: Beyond Belief: A Buddhist Critique of Fundamentalist Christianity (1994) by A. L. De Silva Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder...
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- Animism (from Latin: anima, 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially...