Baggage vs Belief - What's the difference?
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(usually, uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipment
* {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Charles Georges Souli, title=Eastern Shame Girl, chapter=, edition=
, passage=As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 20, author=Jonathan Rosenbaum, title=Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street. }}
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(uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively..
* {{quote-book, year=1846, author=Henry Francis Cary, title=Lives of the English Poets, chapter=, edition=
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(obsolete, countable, pejorative) A woman
* {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages ) felt for their master--pitied their poor master! }}
* {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Charles Whibley, title=A Book of Scoundrels, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Gertrude Hall, title=Chantecler, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love! }}
(military, countable, and, uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=History of Friedrich II of Prussia, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages , to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross. }}
* 2007 , Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945 , New York: Penguin, p 305:
Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.
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, volume=189, issue=26, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
(countable) Something believed.
(uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
(uncountable) Religious faith.
(in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
As nouns the difference between baggage and belief
is that baggage is (usually|uncountable) luggage; traveling equipment while belief is mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.baggage
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(en-noun)- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
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- He's got a lot of emotional baggage .
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- In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.
Synonyms
* (luggage) luggage, gear, stuff, bagsDerived terms
* baggage carousel * baggage claim * baggage handler * baggage reclaim * baggage train * bag and baggage * blind baggage * excess baggagebelief
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(en noun)Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again, passage=The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.}}