faith

noun
/feɪθ/

A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.

Example

“The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.”

Other meanings

A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
“I have faith that my prayers will be answered.”
A religious or spiritual belief system.
“The Christian faith.”

Related words

act of faith
antifaith
article of faith
Attic faith
bad faith
blind faith
by my faith
cupboard faith
faith and begorra
faith-based
faithbreach
faithbreaker

Example sentences

“Faith healing is proven not to work.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“Would you put your faith in him?”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“Science builds planes and skyscrapers, but faith brings them together.”
Tatoeba · deniko · CC0

Word history

From Latin "fidēs" (fidem).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “faith” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.