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Another word for enchantment

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Noun

  1. The power or quality of attracting

      1. The power to entice or attract; fascination
      1. A quality in a person or thing that arouses interest, sympathy, desire, etc.; attraction
      2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision:
      3. A call upon some authority or person for a decision, opinion, etc.
      1. The act of attracting or condition of being attracted
      2. The gravitational force exerted by one body on another.
      3. (Physics) The mutual action by which bodies or particles of matter tend to draw together or cohere
      1. (Uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.
      2. (Countable) The result of being attractive.
      1. A sound or an instrument made to imitate such a cry, used as a lure:
      2. Need or occasion:
      3. The strong attraction or appeal of a given activity or environment:
      1. A special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires allegiance and devotion
      2. A special charm or allure that inspires fascination or devotion
      3. The ability to influence without the use of logic.
      1. A chanted word, phrase, or verse assumed to have magic power to help or hurt; incantation
      2. (Particle Physics) An individuating property of quarks and other elementary particles: it is expressed as a quantum number, with +1 used of a particle that has charm (charmed particle) and 0 used of one that does not
      3. An item worn for its supposed magical benefit, as in warding off evil; an amulet.
      1. A special advantage; an edge:
      2. One that attracts interest, customers, or spectators:
      3. (--- Games) A draw shot.
      1. The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions.
      2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object; as, an enticement to sin.
      1. An intensely interesting, attractive quality or trait.
      2. Strong attraction; charm; allure
      3. The state of being intensely interested or attracted:
      1. (Archaic) A magic spell or charm
      2. Elegance, luxury, high fashion, etc. or their aura around a person, situation, etc.
      3. Exciting or mysterious attractiveness usually associated with striking physical beauty, luxury, or celebrity.
      1. Something that tempts or attracts with the promise of pleasure or reward:
      2. A device consisting of a bunch of feathers on the end of a long cord, often baited with food: it is used in falconry to recall the hawk
      3. Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
      1. The class of phenomena exhibited by a magnetic field.
      2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
      3. Power to attract; personal charm or allure
      1. Witchcraft; sorcery
      2. Allure
      3. Bewitching charm; fascination
      1. Force exerted in pulling or required to overcome resistance in pulling:
      2. Drawing power; appeal
      3. (Slang) A means of gaining special advantage; influence:
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Another word for enchantment

Noun

  1. Magic

    See also:

    magic

  2. Great delight

    See also:

    attraction

    happiness

    rapture

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Sentence Examples

  • The intimacy was renewed; but the old enchantment was lost.

  • This fay by enchantment built the castle of Lusignan for her husband.

  • There he wrote the best known of all his verses, the pathetic Jeune captive, a poem at once of enchantment and of despair.

  • 10 Constanti- bnaeke nople was similarly protected by the serpent-trophy of Delphi which Constantine removed thither; an emperor was said to have performed an enchantment over the monument well known in Greek history.'

  • These accessories catch the light beautifully and their constant sparkle only adds to the enchantment of the day.

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