Synonyms for Superstition
ˌsu pərˈstɪʃ ənsu·per·sti·tion

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1. superstition

   Fanaticism is extravagant or even frenzied zeal; bigotry is obstinate and unreasoning attachment to a cause or creed; fanaticism and bigotry usually include intolerance, which is unwillingness to tolerate beliefs or opinions contrary to one's own; superstition is ignorant and irrational religious belief. Credulity is not distinctively religious, but is a general readiness to believe without sufficient evidence, with a proneness to accept the marvellous. Bigotry is narrow, fanaticism is fierce, superstition is ignorant, credulity is weak, intolerance is severe. Bigotry has not the capacity to reason fairly, fanaticism has not the patience, superstition has not the knowledge and mental discipline, intolerance has not the disposition. Bigotry, fanaticism, and superstition are perversions of the religious sentiment; credulity and intolerance often accompany skepticism or atheism.

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance

   Antonyms:
   cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

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1. superstition

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, fanaticism

   Antonyms:
   infidelity, skepticism, disbelief, rationalism, religion, devotion, worship, reason

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1. superstition, superstitious notionnoun

   an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear

   Synonyms:
   superstition, superstitious notion

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1. superstitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   false religion, worship of false gods, irrational worship

2. superstitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   belief in omens

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1. List of paraphrases for "superstition":

   superstitious

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1. Thomas Fuller:

   Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

3. Alexander Hodge:

   Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

4. Federico Fellini:

   Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

5. Cyril Connolly:

   The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.