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What does superstition mean?
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superstition

Superstition is a person's belief(s) in something which is not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.

superstition

an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear

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What do people use superstition to talk about?
  • What words refer to foolish or ignorant beliefs about religion?
  • What words refer to religious practices that are done in ignorance?

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Simple sentences

I have no faith in a silly superstition.
Such a ridiculous superstition no longer exists.
This superstition still lingers on among them.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
That is a modern form of superstition.
During my entire life, I've fought against superstition.
My whole life long, I fought against superstition.
I will raise my children so that they will be protected from superstition.
I will bring my children up in such a way that they will be protected from superstition.
That's just superstition.
He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.
In Germany, there's a superstition that if you light a cigarette off a candle, a sailor will die at sea.
Magic is the art of changing superstition into money.
What's the difference between a superstition and an urban myth?

Movie subtitles

But there are also confessions, which might very well be close to the truth, namely during the times when superstition ruled.
But isn't superstition still rampant among us?
Oh, but that's all superstition.
The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.
I may be able to bring you proof. that the superstition of yesterday can become. the scientific reality of today.
But all of this is mere superstition.
A superstition.
And perhaps I will prove to you that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.
Today, one of our old divers defying the superstition.
Today's tragedy proves this is no superstition: the shark is there.
Some native superstition, isn't it?
It is the origin of the common superstition of the cat with nine lives.
Autosuggestion, self-hypnosis: The basis of all superstition.
My mind is just as open as it ever was, Professor, but it's a scientific mind, and there's no place in it for superstition.
I may be able to bring you proof that the superstition of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.
It may not be fear. It may be superstition.
Lucky superstition for us.
Who can define the boundary between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Do you, as an intelligent scientist, dare to dismiss as superstition the principles underlying Tibetan magic, voodooism, thought transference?
But I don't know, Haiti is full of nonsense and superstition.
Wherever there is a superstition, you will find there is also a practice.
Yes - that's the superstition!
God is a superstition too crude to impose upon a child.
God is a superstition. if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.
There was a massacre on Superstition Mountain.
We must admit there is a dividing line somewhere between superstition and the supernatural.
Bruce, there's an old newspaper superstition that the first big check you get, you put in the lining of your hat.
That's a funny superstition you newspaper people have.
Some old peasant superstition.
That is stupidity. That is superstition.
It makes no sense, it's just a superstition.

News and current affairs

Ethics and rules of justice change and have to adapt, as they have since the Enlightenment's ideals began breaking down the barriers of superstition, obscurantism, and demagogy that limited the realm of human freedom.
That is a superstition.
They find it hard to negotiate peace in a world that approaches them armed with the hateful echoes of medieval superstition.
Now, as president, Yanukovych's crude instinct is to treat the law and constitution as Karl Marx thought of them: as a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and the unconscious rationalization of private interests.
If, as we were taught by Marx, belief in a higher law is a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and unconscious rationalizations, then the predations that incited the Orange Revolution are in reality the only possible conditions in which we can live.
News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition.
Faith-based science seems a contradiction in terms, because the scientific worldview emerged as a challenge to religious superstition.
In the official view, Ahmadinejad and his circle lack rationality and wisdom; indeed, they are said to be in the grip of superstition.
The Halappanavar case thus reverses the Western stereotype of Eastern societies as preserves of superstition and religious extremism.

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