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superstition

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religion
noun. belief in divinity; system of beliefs
  • church
  • communion
  • creed
  • cult
  • denomination
  • devotion
  • doctrine
  • higher power
  • morality
  • myth
  • mythology
  • observance
  • orthodoxy
  • pietism
  • piety
  • prayer
  • preference
  • religiosity
  • rites
  • ritual
  • sacrifice
  • sanctification
  • sect
  • spiritual-mindedness
  • spirituality
  • standards
  • superstition
  • theology
  • veneration

taboo
noun. something not allowed, permitted
  • anathema
  • ban
  • disapproval
  • don't
  • forbiddance
  • inhibition
  • interdict
  • law
  • limitation
  • no-no
  • prohibition
  • proscription
  • regulation
  • religious convention
  • reservation
  • restraint
  • restriction
  • sanction
  • social convention
  • stricture
  • superstition
  • thou-shalt-not

old wives' tale
noun. popular belief
  • allegory
  • fable
  • fallacy
  • false belief
  • false knowledge
  • folklore
  • legend
  • lore
  • moral
  • myth
  • parable
  • story
  • superstition
  • superstitious belief
  • tale
  • tradition
  • yarn

mythos
noun. lore
  • adage
  • belief
  • custom
  • doctrine
  • enlightenment
  • erudition
  • experience
  • fable
  • folklore
  • information
  • knowledge
  • learning
  • legend
  • letters
  • myth
  • mythology
  • saga
  • saw
  • saying
  • scholarship
  • science
  • superstition
  • tale
  • teaching
  • tradition

prestidigitation
noun. magic
  • abracadabra
  • alchemy
  • allurement
  • astrology
  • augury
  • bewitchment
  • black art
  • conjuration
  • conjuring
  • conjury
  • devilry
  • diabolism
  • divination
  • enchantment
  • exorcism
  • fascination
  • foreboding
  • fortune-telling
  • hocuspocus
  • horoscopy
  • illusion
  • incantation
  • legerdemain
  • magnetism
  • necromancy
  • occultism
  • power
  • prediction
  • presage
  • prophecy
  • rune
  • sleight of hand
  • soothsaying
  • sorcery
  • sortilege
  • spell
  • superstition
  • taboo
  • thaumaturgy
  • trickery
  • voodoo
  • voodooism
  • witchcraft
  • wizardry

thaumaturgy
noun. magic
  • abracadabra
  • alchemy
  • allurement
  • astrology
  • augury
  • bewitchment
  • black art
  • conjuration
  • conjuring
  • conjury
  • devilry
  • diabolism
  • divination
  • enchantment
  • exorcism
  • fascination
  • foreboding
  • fortune-telling
  • hocuspocus
  • horoscopy
  • illusion
  • incantation
  • legerdemain
  • magnetism
  • necromancy
  • occultism
  • power
  • prediction
  • presage
  • prestidigitation
  • prophecy
  • rune
  • sleight of hand
  • soothsaying
  • sorcery
  • sortilege
  • spell
  • superstition
  • taboo
  • theurgy
  • trickery
  • voodoo
  • voodooism
  • witchcraft
  • witchery
  • witching
  • wizardry

theurgy
noun. magic
  • abracadabra
  • alchemy
  • allurement
  • astrology
  • augury
  • bewitchment
  • black art
  • conjuration
  • conjuring
  • conjury
  • devilry
  • diabolism
  • divination
  • enchantment
  • exorcism
  • fascination
  • foreboding
  • fortune-telling
  • hocuspocus
  • horoscopy
  • illusion
  • incantation
  • legerdemain
  • magnetism
  • necromancy
  • occultism
  • power
  • prediction
  • presage
  • prestidigitation
  • prophecy
  • rune
  • sleight of hand
  • soothsaying
  • sorcery
  • sortilege
  • spell
  • superstition
  • taboo
  • thaumaturgy
  • trickery
  • voodoo
  • voodooism
  • witchcraft
  • witchery
  • witching
  • wizardry
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Example Sentences for superstition

Then they called Superstition, and bade him look upon the prisoner.

All the grossness, superstition, and bad taste of the age were put into them.

Whether this arose from personal spite or from superstition does not matter.

He had not, however, by any means been the enemy of all superstition.

To women, at least, all unhappiness comes from the superstition that love—any sort—is all.

She was miserable about his health, but she too had a moment of superstition, and would not urge him.

But in other cases where no such explanation offers itself, superstition seems wholly unaccountable.

He went on thinking: "Perhaps, they have some superstition about worshipping in their own pew."

Doctors know nothing whatever about bile, and liver-medicines are a superstition.

The aborigines of New Zealand have a suggestive version of this superstition.

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