Antonyms 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.

   Antonyms:
   cynicism, free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance

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1. superstition

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

   Synonyms:
   bigotry, fanaticism

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1. superstition, superstitious notionnoun

   an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear

   Synonyms:
   superstitious notion

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1. deductive, illegitimate

   deductive means to prove a belief into reality by drawing logical reasoning and factual evidences.illegitimate means not proved by laws and theories.this explains that both these words are synonyms of each other and are suitable antonyms for the word superstition.

   Submitted by acronimous on January 16, 2018  

How to use superstition in a sentence?

1. Mary Baker Eddy:

   Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

2. 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.

3. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   If you Believe whatever you read, and don’t Discriminate between Bead and Seed...If Myth and Superstition is all you Feed, then Misery in Life will take the Lead.

4. 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.

5. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON:

   Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.

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