Another word for magic
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Noun
The use of supernatural powers to influence or predict events
- The art, skill, or practice of a wizard; sorcery.
- A power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform:
- Great ability or adroitness in a pursuit:
- Relating to or characteristic of witchcraft.
- Having the power to charm or enchant; bewitching.
- Witchcraft; sorcery.
- witchcraft; sorcery
- bewitching charm; fascination
- Magic; sorcery.
- Wicca.
- A magical or irresistible influence, attraction, or charm.
- Divine or supernatural intervention in human affairs.
- The performance of miracles with supernatural assistance.
- Magic performed with the aid of beneficent spirits, as formerly practiced by the Neo-Platonists.
- The working of miracles or magic feats.
- The act or practice of foretelling the future by drawing lots.
- Sorcery; witchcraft.
- Use of supernatural power over others through the assistance of spirits; witchcraft.
- The act or art of conjuring.
- A magic spell or incantation.
- A magic trick or magical effect.
See also:An object or power that one uses to cause often evil events
- A supernatural spell for subduing an adversary; a hex:
- A serious or devastating setback:
- To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).
- To constitute the letters of (a word):
- To add up to; signify:
- A look or stare believed to cause injury or misfortune to others.
- The presumed power to cause injury or misfortune to others by magic or supernatural means.
- The power or quality of pleasing or delighting; appeal:
- A quality that pleases or attracts; a delightful characteristic:
- A small ornament, such as one worn on a bracelet.
See also:The use of skillful tricks and deceptions to produce entertainingly baffling effects
- The performance of or skill in performing juggling or magic tricks so quickly and deftly that the manner of execution cannot be observed; legerdemain.
- A trick or set of tricks performed in this way.
- Deception or trickery:
- Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.
- Skill or cleverness, especially in deceiving others.
- Sleight of hand.
- Deceitful cleverness; trickery:
- The act or art of conjuring.
- A magic spell or incantation.
- A magic trick or magical effect.
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Adjective
Having, brought about by, or relating to supernatural powers or magic
- Having the qualities or attributes of a wizard.
- Astonishingly remarkable in design, performance, or execution; fabulous:
- Relating to or characteristic of witchcraft.
- Having the power to charm or enchant; bewitching.
- Witchcraft; sorcery.
- Of or pertaining to magic.
- Of, or pertaining to, theurgy.
- Relating to thaumaturgy, magical.
- Of, or relating to, the working of magic or performance of miracles.
- Of or relating to talismans:
- Possessing or believed to possess magic power:
- Of, relating to, or produced by magic.
- Enchanting; bewitching:
- Overrefined, exaggerated, or affected:
- Effeminate:
- Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality:
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Another word for magic
Modifier
Occult
See also:Mysterious
- Of the nature of a miracle; preternatural.
- So astounding as to suggest a miracle; phenomenal:
- Able to work miracles.
- Admirable or very good; excellent or splendid:
- Capable of eliciting wonder; astonishing:
Noun
The controlling of supernatural powers
- Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean.
- A practitioner of hoodoo.
- Voodoo.
- The practice and doctrines of voodoo.
- The practice of sorcery or witchcraft.
- A religion of West African origin practiced chiefly in Haiti and other Caribbean countries, based on animism, magic, and elements of Roman Catholic ritual, and characterized by belief in a supreme God and a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions.
- A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.
- Deceptive or delusive nonsense.
- Black magic; witchcraft.
- Magic practiced for evil purposes or in league with supposed evil spirits; witchcraft.
- Divination by the stars; astrology in its modern prophetic aspect.
- A ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
- A prohibition, especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands, excluding something from use, approach, or mention because of its sacred and inviolable nature.
- An object, word, or act protected by such a prohibition.
- The casting of horoscopes.
- (astrology) The aspect of the stars at the time of a person's birth.
- The study of the positions and motions of celestial bodies in the belief that they have an influence on the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs.
- Astronomy.
- The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
- A sign of something coming; an omen:
- Prediction, prophecy.
- Dealings with or worship of the devil or demons.
- Devilish conduct or character.
- The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.
- An inspired guess or presentiment.
- Something that has been divined.
- An inspired utterance of a prophet, viewed as a revelation of divine will.
- A prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration.
- Such an inspired message or prediction transmitted orally or in writing.
- Nonsense words or phrases used as a formula by quack conjurers.
- A trick performed by a magician or juggler; sleight-of-hand.
- Foolishness or empty pretense used especially to disguise deception or chicanery.
- The performance of or skill in performing juggling or magic tricks so quickly and deftly that the manner of execution cannot be observed; legerdemain.
- A trick or set of tricks performed in this way.
- Deception or trickery:
- Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.
- Skill or cleverness, especially in deceiving others.
- The animistic religion of certain peoples of northern Asia in which mediation between the visible and spirit worlds is effected by shamans.
- A similar religion or set of beliefs, especially among certain Native American peoples.
- The act or practice of foretelling the future by drawing lots.
- Sorcery; witchcraft.
- The act of enchanting.
- The state of being enchanted.
- Something that enchants.
- An irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.
- A belief, practice, or rite irrationally maintained by ignorance of the laws of nature or by faith in magic or chance.
- A fearful or abject state of mind resulting from such ignorance or irrationality.
- The power of bewitching or fascinating; charm.
- A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity.
- A seemingly magical power or process of transmuting:
- To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).
- To constitute the letters of (a word):
- To add up to; signify:
- Ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect.
- A formula used in ritual recitation; a verbal charm or spell.
- A conventionalized utterance repeated without thought or aptness; a formula:
- The working of miracles or magic feats.
- Sleight of hand.
- Deceitful cleverness; trickery:
- The practice of supposedly communicating with the spirits of the dead in order to predict the future.
- Black magic; sorcery.
- Magic qualities.
- The art, skill, or practice of a wizard; sorcery.
- A power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform:
- Great ability or adroitness in a pursuit:
- Magic; sorcery.
- Wicca.
- A magical or irresistible influence, attraction, or charm.
- The belief in and study of hidden supernatural powers, especially with the aim of bringing them under human control.
- Use of supernatural power over others through the assistance of spirits; witchcraft.
See also:An example of magic
- Any of several group dances associated with two messianic religious movements among Native American peoples of the Southwest and Great Plains in the late 1800s. Ghost dance prophets foretold the imminent disappearance of whites, the restoration of traditional lands and ways of life, and the resurrection of dead ancestors.
- The act, practice, or ceremony of exorcising.
- A formula used in exorcising.
- A sense of impending evil or misfortune.
- An evil omen; a portent.
- Ominous.
- Present participle of presage.
- A premonition or prognostication.