superstitionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌsuː.pəˈstɪʃ.ən/us/ˌsuː.pɚˈstɪʃ.ən/belief that is not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, but is connected with old ideas about magic, etc.:
According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
I don't believe in the old superstition that the number 13 is unlucky.
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
- animism
- anticlerical
- ascetic
- atheist
- credo
- creed
- cult
- doctrine
- faith can move mountains idiom
- fetish
- heresy
- humanism
- monotheism
- mysticism
- orthodoxy
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- secular humanism
- theism
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