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Believing vs Accepting - What's the difference?

believing | accepting |

As verbs the difference between believing and accepting

is that believing is present participle of lang=en while accepting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun believing

is belief.

As an adjective accepting is

characterized by acceptance.

believing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • belief
  • * 2004 , Dermot Moran, ?Lester E. Embree, Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy (volume 2, page 337)
    • Some believings are believings with simple certainty; others are more or less uncertain; still others are believings with a reassured certainty, perhaps after a time during which they were uncertain.

    accepting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by acceptance.

    • Derived terms

    * acceptingly