1. (n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

2. (n.) A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

Weltanschauung adherents articles of religion catechism church class communion confession credenda credo creed cult cultism denomination disciples doctrinal statement faith followers formulated belief gospel ideology mystique order persuasion political faith political philosophy religion school sect system of belief world view