superstitiousness

noun

superstition

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Meanings

nounsuperstitiousness (usually uncountable, plural superstitiousnesses)

plural superstitiousnesses

  1. rareuncountableusuallysuperstition

    The accident that aroused it illustrates Indian superstitiousness.

    1912, William Henry Johnson, French Pathfinders in North America
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    The characters are all quirky and life-size (the Dillon character's superstitiousness is one of the principal motors of the plot, and the story's outcome doesn't prove him wrong), and, as with the burglaries in Breaking In, the treatment of drugs is refreshingly free of either moralizing or romanticizing.

    1989 October 27, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Drugstore Cowboy”, in Chicago Reader

    Seeing the good that the Bible has wrought for man in the past, we may well emulate the reverence of these Karaites; while, seeing the unreality of the traditional notion of the Bible that they held, and the mischiefs it has bred, we may well disown their superstitiousness.

    1883, R. Heber Newton, The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

Origin

From superstitious + -ness.

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