| Main Entry: | theology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | religious theory or belief |
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belief, credo, creed, doctrine, dogma, faith, theism |
| Concept: | [Religious knowledge.] Theology. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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-nouns
theology (natural and revealed); theogony, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed (belief); article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith., theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers.
-adjectives
theological, religious; denominational; sectarian.
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| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in a higher being; community of believers |
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canon, church, communion, confession, connection, conviction, credo, creed, cult, denomination, doctrine, dogma, doxy, gospel, orthodoxy, persuasion, piety, piousness, principle, profession, religion, revelation, sect, teaching, tenet, theism, theology, worship |
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agnosticism, denial, doubt, rejection, skepticism, unbelief |
| Main Entry: | religion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in divinity; system of beliefs |
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church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, higher power, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, pietism, piety, prayer, preference, religiosity, rites, ritual, sacrifice, sanctification, sect, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, standards, superstition, theology, veneration |
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agnosticism, atheism, disbelief |
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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