trust

a feeling or certainty that someone or something can be trusted
Event positive_emotion Q659974
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Summary

trust is a positive emotion[1]. trust draws 1,817 Wikipedia views per month (positive emotion category, ranking #5 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: basic emotion[3], core concept[4]
  • Subclass of: belief[5]
  • Part of: psychological terminology[6]
  • Commons category: Trust[7]
  • Opposite of: distrust[8]
  • Has cause: culture[9], genetics[10], in-group favoritism[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Lean Logic[13]
  • Used by: scam[14]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C71753[15]
  • Different from: Vertrauen[16], conviction[17], confidence[18]
  • Studied by: theory of emotion[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/trust[21]

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Outcome and Impact

Things named for trust include Tawakkul[22], an Islamic term[23]; S.T. Corp[24], a business[25], in Japan[26], founded in 1946[27], headquartered in Shimo-Ochiai[28]; and Trustroots[29], a hospitality service[30], founded in 2014[31].

Why It Matters

trust has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] trust is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for trust include Tawakkul[22], an Islamic term[23]; S.T. Corp[24], a business[25], in Japan[26], founded in 1946[27], headquartered in Shimo-Ochiai[28]; and Trustroots[29], a hospitality service[30], founded in 2014[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . thenextweb.com. thenextweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['1Nbt1u', '14T7Ln']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['1Nbt1u', '14T7Ln']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37385|batch #37385]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541)"
  3. 17w ago · ~2026-19930-08 · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → a feeling or certainty that someone or something can be trusted
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en, ru, bg */"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0236203-duvera
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0236203-duvera, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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