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.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.

The thing believed; the object of belief.

A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.

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a conclusion we reach about how life works, based on what we've observed, or what we've been told about how life works - by parents, primarily, as well as by schools, churches, friends and society at large

a generalisation or decision or conclusion about something

a perception of reality, a conclusion you came to or something you were told and had no reason not to accept

EU citizenship confers the right to protection from discrimination on the grounds of, among other things, belief. This is enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. (See EU citizenship)

a far different thing from a "suggestion" or a "hypothesis"

a thing beyond reason