Definition of superstition in English:

superstition

noun ˌsuːpəˈstɪʃ(ə)nˌsupərˈstɪʃ(ə)n

mass noun

1Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural.
he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition
Example sentencesExamples
- In an atmosphere of control and superstition, the boy is something of a rebel and misfit - going where he shouldn't go, always testing the boundaries of what he's allowed to say or do.
- While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
- It was the era of the big set-piece battles between science and religion, between superstition and modernity, between medicine and fate, between madness and psychotherapy.
- Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
- The document further calls on government departments to make a finer distinction between religion and superstition so that people can worship religion without interference.
- During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea.
- There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it.
- It's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition.
- The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft.
- On the one hand it was a repository for formalized superstition; on the other it stood ready for interpretational abuse in criminology, eugenics, ethnography, and the construction of racial stereotypes.
- It is a windy day, and the church is barely three-quarters full, indicating, the narrator tells us, the general loss of religious fervor in the city, where superstition has replaced religion.
- The film gives us unusually authentic-seeming pictures of village life and ritual, and invests the people with a certain dignity and sensibility, even if ultimately they prefer superstition and fear to science.
- He also claimed that Philosophy alone douses the flames of superstition.
- We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
- Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition.
- By opting for a courtroom setting, it not only dramatises the conflict between rationalism and religion, psychiatry and superstition, but also pretends to give both sides an equal hearing.
- He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
- You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation.
- While primal drums beat, village women dance around a flaming bonfire bearing icons, turning to superstition to lift the ‘dark curse’ that sent torrential floods.
- Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition.
Synonyms
unfounded belief, credulity
magic, sorcery, witchcraft
fallacy, delusion, illusion
1. 1.1count noun A widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief.
  she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she'd had since childhood
  Example sentencesExamples
  Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning.
  Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells.
  As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions.
  Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions.
  The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair.
  He's coming from the western part of medieval Europe, from the larger cities and armies, and at first he can't help but make fun out of the small villages and local superstitions.
  It deals with her superstitions and beliefs in the supernatural - she has a friend who predicted his own murder, and after he was killed the names of the two killers came to her out of nowhere.
  I uncovered lots more money superstitions, including embedding silver coins in Christmas puddings, the tooth fairy, and the fact that actors are superstitious about using real money on stage.
  Optimism seems to rule: Four of the five most widely held superstitions are the ones that bring on the good.
  While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions.
  The Symphony No 9, or the Choral, had such an enormous impact that a superstition sprung up among subsequent composers that it tempted fate to venture beyond nine symphonies, the number at which Beethoven laid down his pen.
  The problem comes when superstitions belong to people in power - when superstitions become the operating system for major companies and other important institutions.
  Other ridiculous superstitions can contribute to the demise of a tennis player - comets, ball boys, hotel rooms, when to sit on the can and which sexual partners are acceptable.
  Of course, many folk customs and superstitions surrounded these events, as women relied on a female community of relatives, midwives, and nurses to see them through this time of physical and spiritual danger.
  He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
  At one point, he sits straight up because he thinks he hears two screech owls, which is a superstition that says bad luck is coming.
  I also liked the ‘behind the scenes’ aspect of the presentation, which showed in some detail the various training regimens and assorted superstitions to which players seem to adhere.
  Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized.
  Synonyms
  myth, belief, old wives' tale, notion
  legend, story

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin superstitio(n-), from super- 'over' + stare 'to stand' (perhaps from the notion of ‘standing over’ something in awe).

The Latin word superstitio comes from super- ‘over’ and stare ‘to stand’. The idea seems to have been of ‘standing over’ something in amazement or awe. By the time superstition first appeared in English at the beginning of the 15th century it referred to an irrational religious belief based on fear, or ignorance or to a religious belief considered false or pagan. The more general ‘irrational or unfounded belief’ sense is first recorded in the 1790s.

Definition of superstition in US English:

superstition

nounˌso͞opərˈstiSH(ə)nˌsupərˈstɪʃ(ə)n

1Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings.
he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a windy day, and the church is barely three-quarters full, indicating, the narrator tells us, the general loss of religious fervor in the city, where superstition has replaced religion.
- You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation.
- By opting for a courtroom setting, it not only dramatises the conflict between rationalism and religion, psychiatry and superstition, but also pretends to give both sides an equal hearing.
- We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
- During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea.
- He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
- Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition.
- It was the era of the big set-piece battles between science and religion, between superstition and modernity, between medicine and fate, between madness and psychotherapy.
- Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition.
- Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
- On the one hand it was a repository for formalized superstition; on the other it stood ready for interpretational abuse in criminology, eugenics, ethnography, and the construction of racial stereotypes.
- It's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition.
- The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft.
- He also claimed that Philosophy alone douses the flames of superstition.
- While primal drums beat, village women dance around a flaming bonfire bearing icons, turning to superstition to lift the ‘dark curse’ that sent torrential floods.
- In an atmosphere of control and superstition, the boy is something of a rebel and misfit - going where he shouldn't go, always testing the boundaries of what he's allowed to say or do.
- While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
- The document further calls on government departments to make a finer distinction between religion and superstition so that people can worship religion without interference.
- There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it.
- The film gives us unusually authentic-seeming pictures of village life and ritual, and invests the people with a certain dignity and sensibility, even if ultimately they prefer superstition and fear to science.
Synonyms
unfounded belief, credulity
1. 1.1 A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.
  she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she had had since childhood
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's coming from the western part of medieval Europe, from the larger cities and armies, and at first he can't help but make fun out of the small villages and local superstitions.
  Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells.
  He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
  It deals with her superstitions and beliefs in the supernatural - she has a friend who predicted his own murder, and after he was killed the names of the two killers came to her out of nowhere.
  At one point, he sits straight up because he thinks he hears two screech owls, which is a superstition that says bad luck is coming.
  Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized.
  I uncovered lots more money superstitions, including embedding silver coins in Christmas puddings, the tooth fairy, and the fact that actors are superstitious about using real money on stage.
  Optimism seems to rule: Four of the five most widely held superstitions are the ones that bring on the good.
  Other ridiculous superstitions can contribute to the demise of a tennis player - comets, ball boys, hotel rooms, when to sit on the can and which sexual partners are acceptable.
  The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair.
  Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions.
  Of course, many folk customs and superstitions surrounded these events, as women relied on a female community of relatives, midwives, and nurses to see them through this time of physical and spiritual danger.
  While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions.
  As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions.
  The problem comes when superstitions belong to people in power - when superstitions become the operating system for major companies and other important institutions.
  The Symphony No 9, or the Choral, had such an enormous impact that a superstition sprung up among subsequent composers that it tempted fate to venture beyond nine symphonies, the number at which Beethoven laid down his pen.
  I also liked the ‘behind the scenes’ aspect of the presentation, which showed in some detail the various training regimens and assorted superstitions to which players seem to adhere.
  Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning.
  Synonyms
  myth, belief, old wives' tale, notion

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin superstitio(n-), from super- ‘over’ + stare ‘to stand’ (perhaps from the notion of ‘standing over’ something in awe).

单词	superstition
释义	Definition of superstition in English: superstition noun ˌsuːpəˈstɪʃ(ə)nˌsupərˈstɪʃ(ə)n mass noun 1Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural. he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition Example sentencesExamples In an atmosphere of control and superstition, the boy is something of a rebel and misfit - going where he shouldn't go, always testing the boundaries of what he's allowed to say or do. While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being. It was the era of the big set-piece battles between science and religion, between superstition and modernity, between medicine and fate, between madness and psychotherapy. Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development. The document further calls on government departments to make a finer distinction between religion and superstition so that people can worship religion without interference. During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea. There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it. It's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition. The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft. On the one hand it was a repository for formalized superstition; on the other it stood ready for interpretational abuse in criminology, eugenics, ethnography, and the construction of racial stereotypes. It is a windy day, and the church is barely three-quarters full, indicating, the narrator tells us, the general loss of religious fervor in the city, where superstition has replaced religion. The film gives us unusually authentic-seeming pictures of village life and ritual, and invests the people with a certain dignity and sensibility, even if ultimately they prefer superstition and fear to science. He also claimed that Philosophy alone douses the flames of superstition. We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored. Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition. By opting for a courtroom setting, it not only dramatises the conflict between rationalism and religion, psychiatry and superstition, but also pretends to give both sides an equal hearing. He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance. You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation. While primal drums beat, village women dance around a flaming bonfire bearing icons, turning to superstition to lift the ‘dark curse’ that sent torrential floods. Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition. Synonyms unfounded belief, credulity magic, sorcery, witchcraft fallacy, delusion, illusion 1.1count noun A widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief. she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she'd had since childhood Example sentencesExamples Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning. Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells. As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions. Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions. The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair. He's coming from the western part of medieval Europe, from the larger cities and armies, and at first he can't help but make fun out of the small villages and local superstitions. It deals with her superstitions and beliefs in the supernatural - she has a friend who predicted his own murder, and after he was killed the names of the two killers came to her out of nowhere. I uncovered lots more money superstitions, including embedding silver coins in Christmas puddings, the tooth fairy, and the fact that actors are superstitious about using real money on stage. Optimism seems to rule: Four of the five most widely held superstitions are the ones that bring on the good. While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions. The Symphony No 9, or the Choral, had such an enormous impact that a superstition sprung up among subsequent composers that it tempted fate to venture beyond nine symphonies, the number at which Beethoven laid down his pen. The problem comes when superstitions belong to people in power - when superstitions become the operating system for major companies and other important institutions. Other ridiculous superstitions can contribute to the demise of a tennis player - comets, ball boys, hotel rooms, when to sit on the can and which sexual partners are acceptable. Of course, many folk customs and superstitions surrounded these events, as women relied on a female community of relatives, midwives, and nurses to see them through this time of physical and spiritual danger. He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death. At one point, he sits straight up because he thinks he hears two screech owls, which is a superstition that says bad luck is coming. I also liked the ‘behind the scenes’ aspect of the presentation, which showed in some detail the various training regimens and assorted superstitions to which players seem to adhere. Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized. Synonyms myth, belief, old wives' tale, notion legend, story Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin superstitio(n-), from super- 'over' + stare 'to stand' (perhaps from the notion of ‘standing over’ something in awe). The Latin word superstitio comes from super- ‘over’ and stare ‘to stand’. The idea seems to have been of ‘standing over’ something in amazement or awe. By the time superstition first appeared in English at the beginning of the 15th century it referred to an irrational religious belief based on fear, or ignorance or to a religious belief considered false or pagan. The more general ‘irrational or unfounded belief’ sense is first recorded in the 1790s. Definition of superstition in US English: superstition nounˌso͞opərˈstiSH(ə)nˌsupərˈstɪʃ(ə)n 1Excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings. he dismissed the ghost stories as mere superstition Example sentencesExamples It is a windy day, and the church is barely three-quarters full, indicating, the narrator tells us, the general loss of religious fervor in the city, where superstition has replaced religion. You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation. By opting for a courtroom setting, it not only dramatises the conflict between rationalism and religion, psychiatry and superstition, but also pretends to give both sides an equal hearing. We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored. During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea. He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance. Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition. It was the era of the big set-piece battles between science and religion, between superstition and modernity, between medicine and fate, between madness and psychotherapy. Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition. Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development. On the one hand it was a repository for formalized superstition; on the other it stood ready for interpretational abuse in criminology, eugenics, ethnography, and the construction of racial stereotypes. It's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition. The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft. He also claimed that Philosophy alone douses the flames of superstition. While primal drums beat, village women dance around a flaming bonfire bearing icons, turning to superstition to lift the ‘dark curse’ that sent torrential floods. In an atmosphere of control and superstition, the boy is something of a rebel and misfit - going where he shouldn't go, always testing the boundaries of what he's allowed to say or do. While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being. The document further calls on government departments to make a finer distinction between religion and superstition so that people can worship religion without interference. There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it. The film gives us unusually authentic-seeming pictures of village life and ritual, and invests the people with a certain dignity and sensibility, even if ultimately they prefer superstition and fear to science. Synonyms unfounded belief, credulity 1.1 A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief. she touched her locket for luck, a superstition she had had since childhood Example sentencesExamples He's coming from the western part of medieval Europe, from the larger cities and armies, and at first he can't help but make fun out of the small villages and local superstitions. Priests of the Roman Church have in past centuries found themselves, sometimes under episcopal direction, in earnest battle against perceived local superstitions and impious social customs connected with holy wells. He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death. It deals with her superstitions and beliefs in the supernatural - she has a friend who predicted his own murder, and after he was killed the names of the two killers came to her out of nowhere. At one point, he sits straight up because he thinks he hears two screech owls, which is a superstition that says bad luck is coming. Its observations of Italian immigrant life have the ring of authenticity as mother dilutes the wine for the children at dinner, friends indelicately attack a plate of spaghetti, or various superstitions are ritualized. I uncovered lots more money superstitions, including embedding silver coins in Christmas puddings, the tooth fairy, and the fact that actors are superstitious about using real money on stage. Optimism seems to rule: Four of the five most widely held superstitions are the ones that bring on the good. Other ridiculous superstitions can contribute to the demise of a tennis player - comets, ball boys, hotel rooms, when to sit on the can and which sexual partners are acceptable. The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair. Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions. Of course, many folk customs and superstitions surrounded these events, as women relied on a female community of relatives, midwives, and nurses to see them through this time of physical and spiritual danger. While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions. As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions. The problem comes when superstitions belong to people in power - when superstitions become the operating system for major companies and other important institutions. The Symphony No 9, or the Choral, had such an enormous impact that a superstition sprung up among subsequent composers that it tempted fate to venture beyond nine symphonies, the number at which Beethoven laid down his pen. I also liked the ‘behind the scenes’ aspect of the presentation, which showed in some detail the various training regimens and assorted superstitions to which players seem to adhere. Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning. Synonyms myth, belief, old wives' tale, notion Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin superstitio(n-), from super- ‘over’ + stare ‘to stand’ (perhaps from the notion of ‘standing over’ something in awe).
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