Word Meanings - EPICUREANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus.

BELIEFFUL
Having belief or faith.
BELIEF
A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker. 3. The thing believed; the object of belief. Superstitious prophecies are not only the belief of fools, but the talk
ATTACHMENT
1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
UNBELIEF
1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. --
REATTACHMENT
The act of reattaching; a second attachment.
MISBELIEF
Erroneous or false belief.
MAKE-BELIEF
A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
DISBELIEF
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