Belief and Claim

Belief

Belief noun - Mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon.

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Claim and belief are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Claim" instead a noun "Belief".

Nearby Words: believing, believer

Claim noun - An entitlement to something.

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Belief and claim are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Belief" instead a noun "Claim".

Nearby Words: claimed, claiming, claimant

old	old belief	old claim
particular	particular belief	particular claim
common	common belief	common claim
original	original belief	original claim
Other adjectives: initial, stupid, strong, actual, real, false, general, universal, unreasonable, primary, previous.

Except that claim's also been around for a long while, based on the belief that only humans have souls, therefore only humans can go to Heaven.

Source: Hell of a Heaven
Lilith from Jewish belief— some legends claim she bore hundreds of demonic children every day.

Source: Mother of a Thousand Young
People tend to claim that I'm the best in that category◊, but I've long held the belief that all it takes is one bad day to make anyone just as crazy as I am.

Source: Self Demonstrating / The Joker

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