BELIEVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does believing mean? 

• BELIEVING (noun)
  The noun BELIEVING has 1 sense:

1. the cognitive process that leads to convictions

  Familiarity information: BELIEVING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELIEVING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process that leads to convictions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

seeing is believing

Hypernyms ("believing" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "believing"):

doublethink (believing two contradictory ideas at the same time)

 Context examples 

I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Next day we were picked up by the brig Hotspur, bound for Australia, whose captain found no difficulty in believing that we were the survivors of a passenger ship which had foundered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Eleanor saw that she wished to be alone; and believing it better for each that they should avoid any further conversation, now left her with, “I shall see you in the morning.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She concluded with many good wishes that Lady Lucas might soon be equally fortunate, though evidently and triumphantly believing there was no chance of it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It had been a miserable party, each of the three believing themselves most miserable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She even considered it the hopeful side of the situation, believing that sooner or later it would arouse him and compel him to abandon his writing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured up by my fancy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For their brother's sake, too, for the sake of his own heart, she rejoiced; and she reproached herself for being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)