1. superstition

noun. ['ˌsuːpɝˈstɪʃən'] an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear.

Rhymes with Superstition

• predisposition
• misrecognition
• juxtaposition
• retransmission
• presupposition
• decomposition
• statistician
• reimposition
• redeposition
• redefinition
• precondition
• pediatrician
• obstetrician
• mathematician
• malnutrition
• geriatrician
• fondkommission
• extradition
• transmission
• requisition
• recondition
• recognition
• proposition
• premonition
• preignition
• inquisition
• exposition
• expedition
• electrician
• disposition

How do you pronounce superstition?

Pronounce superstition as ˌsupərˈstɪʃən.

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Sentences with superstition

1. Noun, singular or mass
That superstition evolved for a reason: Cats do cry, just not in the sense we might think.

Quotes about superstition

1. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw

2. What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

3. When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
- Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth