superstition
IPA: supɝstˈɪʃʌn
noun
- A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
- (archaic) Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness.
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Examples of "superstition" in Sentences
- She knows the superstition of the black dot.
- Superstition is the opposite of demonstration.
- It talks about superstition and the unnatural.
- It is an antidote for hypnotism and superstitions.
- All are held in the grip of miserable superstition.
- It is devoted to the subject of luck and superstition.
- It anchors the west end of the Superstition Wilderness.
- It's about the superstition of uttering the phrase as good luck.
- The first opinion is that personation was a bygone superstition.
- That is the beginning of the superstition about whistling in a theater.
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