| Main Entry: | superstition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in sign of things to come |
Synonyms: |
false belief, fear, irrationality, notion, shibboleth, unfounded fear |
Antonyms: |
fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, arbitrariness, bias, bigotry, contumacy, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, extremism, faction, frenzy, hatred, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, monomania, obsessiveness, obstinacy, partiality, partisanship, passion, prejudice, rage, single-mindedness, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, violence, willfulness, zeal, zealotry |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, impartiality, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | fetish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object believed to have supernatural powers |
Synonyms: |
amulet, charm, cult object, idol, image, juju, mascot, phylactery, superstition, talisman, voodoo doll, zemi |
| Main Entry: | folklore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tales from the past |
Synonyms: |
ballad, custom, fable, folk story, legend, myth, mythology, mythos, oral literature, superstition, tradition, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | lore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | myths, traditional wisdom |
Synonyms: |
adage, belief, custom, doctrine, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fable, folklore, information, knowledge, learning, legend, letters, mythology, mythos, saga, saw, saying, scholarship, science, superstition, tale, teaching, tradition |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
Synonyms: |
alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | myth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fictitious story, often ancient |
Synonyms: |
allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fairy story, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk ballad, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, mythos, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tall story, tradition |
Antonyms: |
fact, non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | religion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in divinity; system of beliefs |
Synonyms: |
church, communion, creed, cult, denomination, devotion, doctrine, higher power, morality, myth, mythology, observance, orthodoxy, pietism, piety, prayer, preference, religiosity, rites, ritual, sacrifice, sanctification, sect, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, standards, superstition, theology, veneration |
Antonyms: |
agnosticism, atheism, disbelief |
| Main Entry: | taboo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something not allowed, permitted |
Synonyms: |
anathema, ban, disapproval, don't, forbiddance, inhibition, interdict, law, limitation, no-no, prohibition, proscription, regulation, religious convention, reservation, restraint, restriction, sanction, social convention, stricture, superstition, thou-shalt-not |
Antonyms: |
allowance, mentionable |
| Main Entry: | old wives' tale |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | popular belief |
Synonyms: |
allegory, fable, fallacy, false belief, false knowledge, folklore, legend, lore, moral, myth, parable, story, superstition, superstitious belief, tale, tradition, yarn |