Faith vs Reliance - What's the difference?
faith | reliance | Synonyms |
A feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification.
A religious belief system.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal.
(obsolete) Credibility or truth.
* Mitford
The act of relying on someone or something; trust.
* Macaulay
The condition of being reliant or dependent.
A person or thing which relies on another.
Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
* (Richardson)
As nouns the difference between faith and reliance
is that faith is a feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification while reliance is the act of relying on someone or something; trust.As a proper noun Faith
is {{given name|female|from=English}}.faith
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Alternative forms
* feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (obsolete)Noun
- Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.
- I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
- I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
- The Christian faith .
- He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
- I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
- the faith of the foregoing narrative
Quotations
(English Citations of "faith")Synonyms
* belief, confidence, trust,ignorance, arrogance, conviction * (system of religious belief) religionHyponyms
* (religious belief system) Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Wicca, Eckankar, , Zoroastrianism, New Age, Unitarian Universalism, Jainism, Shinto, LaVeyan Satanism, Scientology, Taoism, Yoruba, Druidry, paganism, Juche, Cao Dai, Confucianism, Spiritism, humanism, Rastafarianism, TenrikyoDerived terms
* Attic faith * bad faith * faithful * faithfully * faithfulness * faith-healer * faithing * faithless * in faith * Punic faithExternal links
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*reliance
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Noun
- In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value.
- The boat was a poor reliance .