Synonym: folklore, old wives' tale, tradition. Similar words: superstitious, monopolistic competition, constitutional convention, petition, competition, repetition, practitioner, restitution. Meaning: [‚suːpə(r)'stɪʃn] 
n. an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear.
n. an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear. 
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31. Stars and superstition just seem to go hand in hand.
32. Neither was a spiritualist, but both connected contemporary ideas of earthbound survival with the ancient superstition of eternal youth.
33. It is unlikely that scientific thinking will ever entirely supersede superstition and religion.
34. So it produces an odd sensation to learn, again from Anna, that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky's.
35. There is some kind of popular superstition that crystalline materials are weak.
36. Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell 
37. The game is filled with creatures of habit and superstition.
38. Belief is not a superstition or a religious faith. It is what you think and believe with conviction but has room for doubt. Dr T.P.Chia
39. His virtue was as much rooted in superstition as in goodness.
40. Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down.
41. They are regarded as belonging to an earlier age of superstition and ignorance.
42. Symptoms of reversion to primitive superstition about death are contemporaneous with Romanticism.
43. My sister Janie Ming-li also enjoyed the benefits of deep-seated superstition.
44. It's a curious superstition, the universal instinct to cover up the recently dead.
45. This may have been a popular superstition, but it was by no means confined to uneducated people.
46. They often showed scenes from Minoan mythology or religious symbols[Sentencedict], which gave the sealing the extra dimension of defence by superstition.
47. One of the best places for grand sycamores is the north fork of Horrell Creek, in the Superstition Mountains.
48. There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.
49. For those in desperate straits the line between superstition and saving faith is finely drawn.
50. Could a member of the public expect a professional response, or one based on superstition and prejudice?
51. The answer becomes clear when one looks deeper into the history of popular religiosity and superstition in Sicily.
52. The fact that superstition, occultism, and vague forms of religious paganism persist into modernity is nothing to shout about.
53. Many people seem to have an understanding of faith which borders on superstition.
54. What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens
55. Religion lost its hold on the social imagination when it was seen to embody qualities opposed to science: irrationality and superstition.
56. But I think he's got his own little superstition about the cordite.
57. It's an old superstition that walking under a ladder is unlucky.
58. His mind besotted with fear, ignorance and superstition.
59. Do you believe in jinx or superstition?
60. Superstition may cause people to behave irrationally.
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