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| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust in something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, allegiance, assent, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, constancy, conviction, credence, credit, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, hope, loyalty, reliance, stock, store, surety, troth, truth, truthfulness, certitude, credulity, dependence, sureness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, doubt, misgiving, skepticism, suspicion |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in a higher being; community of believers |
| Synonyms: | canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theology, worship, doxy, piousness, theism |
| Antonyms: | denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, agnosticism, unbelief |
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| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
credulous, God, Mohammedan, accredited, acroamatic, alterocentric, aniconic, antediluvian, assured, autocephalous, believed, believing, blessed, born, certain, cleocentric, cocksure, collegial, commanding belief, confident, confiding, convinced, credible, defrocked, deserving of belief, doctrinal, epideistic, faithworthy, fidlimplicitary, fiducial, fiduciary, filiopletistic, hagiolatrous, hallowed, heliolatrous, holy, imbued with, impressed with, impressive, interdenominational, judaical, kosher, mystical, numinous, penetrated with, persuasive, piacular, pistic, positive, prelapsarian, probable, profane, putative, reborn, recreant, relating to belief, reliable, sacred, sacrosanct, satisfactory, satisfied, saved, secure, sure, suspectless, to be depended upon, trustworthy, ultrafidian, under the impression, unhesitating, unholy, unsuspected, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, venerable, void of suspicion, wedded to, worthy of belief
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| Main Entry: | constancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixedness |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, certainty, decision, determination, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, earnestness, endurance, faith, fealty, fidelity, firmness, honesty, honor, integrity, love, loyalty, permanence, perseverance, principle, regularity, resolution, stability, surety, tenacity, truthfulness, uniformity, zeal, abidingness, dependability, devotedness, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, trustiness, trustworthiness, unchangeableness, unfailingness |
| Antonyms: | change, fluctuation, instability, irregularity, changeableness, inconstancy, unsteadiness |
| Main Entry: | credence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust, acceptance |
| Synonyms: | admission, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, reliance, stock, store, accepting, admitting, dependence |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | distrust, faithlessness |
| Main Entry: | creed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principles |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, canon, church, confession, conviction, cult, doctrine, dogma, faith, ideology, persuasion, profession, religion, tenet, catechism, weltanschauung |
| Main Entry: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, easement, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, optimism, promotion, refreshment, relief, reward, softening, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging, consoling, enlivening, inspiritment, invigoration, reassurance, reassuring, relieving, shot in the arm, solacing |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | gospel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fact, doctrine |
| Synonyms: | actuality, authority, belief, certainty, credo, creed, dogma, faith, last word, testament, truism, truth, veracity, verity, scripture |
| Antonyms: | hypothesis, theory |
| Main Entry: | holiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religiousness |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, consecration, devotion, divinity, faith, godliness, grace, humility, piety, purity, reverence, righteousness, sanctity, spirituality, unction, worship, asceticism, devoutness, divineness, inviolability, religiosity, sacredness, saintliness, venerableness, virtuousness |
| Antonyms: | atheism, sin, wickedness, agnosticism, unholiness |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loyalty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faithfulness, dependability |
| Synonyms: | adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, bond, conscientiousness, constancy, devotion, duty, earnestness, faith, fealty, fidelity, homage, honesty, honor, integrity, obedience, patriotism, probity, reliability, resolution, sincerity, submission, support, tie, troth, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, zeal, devotedness, incorruptibility, inviolability, scrupulousness, single-mindedness, singleness, staunchness, steadfastness, subjection, trueheartedness, trueness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | disloyalty, unfaithfulness, undependability |
| Main Entry: | piety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devotion, religiousness |
| Synonyms: | allegiance, application, ardor, belief, duty, faith, fealty, fervor, fidelity, godliness, grace, holiness, loyalty, obedience, passion, religion, reverence, sanctity, veneration, zeal, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, religiosity |
| Antonyms: | impiety, irreverence |
| Main Entry: | reliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, belief, credence, credit, faith, hope, stock, trust, dependence, interdependence, interdependency |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, independence |
| Main Entry: | sanctity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holiness |
| Synonyms: | blessedness, consecration, devotion, divinity, faith, godliness, goodness, grace, mercy, piety, purity, reverence, righteousness, solemnity, spirituality, asceticism, devoutness, divineness, hallowedness, inviolability, religiousness, sacredness, saintliness, venerableness |
| Main Entry: | sect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school of thought |
| Synonyms: | camp, church, communion, connection, creed, crew, cult, denomination, division, faction, faith, following, group, order, party, persuasion, religion, school, splinter group, team, wing |
| Main Entry: | tenet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, principle |
| Synonyms: | article of faith, assumption, canon, conception, conviction, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, impression, maxim, opinion, persuasion, position, precept, presumption, profession, rule, system, teaching, thesis, trust, view, self-conviction |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
| Synonyms: | advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fortitude, generosity, goodness, hope, ideal, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, uprightness, value, worth, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, fineness, good point, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, evil, vice, immorality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apostolic faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apostolic practice |
| Synonyms: | old-time religion, primitive faith, the faith, true faith |
| Main Entry: | theological virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | faith hope and charity |
| Synonyms: | charity, faith, goodness, hope, love, cardinal virtue, supernatural virtue |
| Main Entry: | word of honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solemn declaration |
| Synonyms: | assurance, commitment, faith, gentlemen's agreement, guarantee, oath, pledge, plight, promise, solemn oath, solemn promise, solemn word, swearing, troth, verbal agreement, vow, warrant, warranty |
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