superstition
迷信,信仰,胡言乱语,崇拜
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- : a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
- : a system or collection of such beliefs.
- : a custom or act based on such a belief.
- : irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious, especially in connection with religion.
- : any blindly accepted belief or notion.
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Examples
Writers were happy to note the superstition, either to goose it along or knock it down.
I believe that in America it’s very similar, except we’re not wobbling between science and superstition, but between science and suspicion, fueled by social media.
The problem is that our government sometimes wobbles between science and superstition.
Though I don’t follow many superstitions, I definitely won’t cut my hair.
It helps that baseball has always been a sport of strange superstitions, with no clock and long odds — where you never know if you’ll connect with the incoming fastball, but you swing anyway.
Darwin was among the many scientists that have helped society evolve out of mysticism, superstition and faith.
Yet superstition can also be, if my theology is correct, the first step in the other direction on that same road.
Tally one for the superstition list… no more laundry at night.
There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning.
Superstition has it that playing the Man of Steel is a career killer.
It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time convention.
I see no infinite goodness here, but only the infinite foolishness of sentimental .