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Meanings of superstition in English

Russian
предрассудок
Portuguese
superstições
Spanish
superstición
Catalan
supersticions
Wikidata

Belief in irrational supernatural causality.

предрассудок
Portuguese
superstição
Catalan
superstició

An irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear.

superstição
Usage of superstition in English
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Pseudoscience and superstition are easy to understand; science is complex and inaccessible.
Skeptics and true believers: the exhilarating connection between...
2
Pansare was known for attacking discrimination, superstition, caste politics and religious fundamentalism.
Reuters
3
Sacrifices, of human beings by Romans; the result of superstition; flesh of.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
4
The persecutions of the early Church originated partly in selfishness and superstition.
The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitu...
5
Such are the blendings of superstition and religion in the Indian mind.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
6
The greatness and loneliness of the sea does breed superstition in mariners.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
7
I will root out every superstition in a circle of twenty miles.
Feats on the Fiord / The third book in "The Playfellow"
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For Malaysia's aviation industry that superstition looks perilously close to the truth.
The Irish Times
9
It could not be much work, Ish decided, to overcome this superstition.
Earth Abides
10
It is not, she assures us, a question of superstition or insecurity.
The Irish Times
11
With him it eventuates in fantastic myth-making, rather than in coercive superstition.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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This was perhaps a lot of superstition together with some practical facts.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
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News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition.
The Guardian
14
I've heard many things spoken about it, friend, and mostly Saxon superstition.
The buried giant
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General superstition had shunned it, and the plot beside Smith was vacant.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Beautiful was the Etruscan superstition that the ancestors become the household gods.
Zanoni
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Superstition through the time
Superstition across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common