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. Vershalee Shukla:

   The City of Phoenix covers all of the cancer screenings for the firefighters for all the Phoenix firefighters. We work with different cities such as Superstition and Tempe which are covered through FEMA grants…more and more people are realizing that this is important and necessary, and they're finding ways to fund it.

2. Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.:

   Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

3. M.K. Ataturk:

   My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

4. Thomas Fuller:

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

5. John William Fletcher:

   Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.