emunah means faith, sincere belief, conviction. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EMUNAH — [Noun] A steadfast, action-oriented trust; a firm conviction expressed not merely as belief but as enduring faithfulness and reliable constancy. From the Hebrew אֱמוּנָה (emuná), derived from the root אמן (ʾ-m-n), connoting firmness, steadfastness, faithfulness, and support. Unlike "belief" (which often denotes a passive, intellectual assent) or "fidelity" (which emphasizes a contractual loyalty), *emunah* is the whole-personed, resilient posture of leaning one's weight upon an unseen reality. It is the worn path to the well walked in drought, the hand that steadies another's elbow on a steep path, and the daily, quiet returning to a difficult work when evidence counsels despair—a stubborn, practiced constancy that becomes the structural beam laid across the chasm of uncertainty.
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- faith, sincere belief, conviction.“I've seen cases in which #1 might possibly be true, though the only way to do so would entail something like suicide of the soul anyway. And who knows, maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa. But there's emuna and there's emuna. The emuna that's strong enough for a person to willingly shrivel up into a living death in return for a better room on the other ”