n. 1 credulity regarding the supernatural. 2 an irrational fear of the unknown or mysterious. 3 misdirected reverence. 4 a practice, opinion, or religion based on these tendencies. 5 a widely held but unjustified idea of the effects or nature of a thing. superstitious adj. superstitiously adv. superstitiousness n.
[ ME f. OF superstition or L superstitio (as SUPER-, stare stat- stand) ]