magic :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. any art that invokes supernatural powers

trick, legerdemain, illusion, deception, magic trick, conjuring trick

n. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

wizard, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizardly

adj. possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers"

enchantment, bewitchment

n. a magical spell

witchcraft, witchery

n. the art of sorcery

genius, wizardry

n. exceptional creative ability

necromancy

n. conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying

voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism

n. a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities

trickery, slickness, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery

n. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

mysticism, religious mysticism

n. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

enchanted

adj. influenced as by charms or incantations

apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral

adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"

weird, unearthly, uncanny, eldritch

adj. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

marvelous, marvellous, miraculous

adj. being or having the character of a miracle

metaphysical

adj. without material form or substance; "metaphysical forces"

necromantic

adj. given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead; "a necromantic sorcerer"; "necromantic delusions"; "necromantic powders and other weird objects"

nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural, transcendental

adj. existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley

paranormal

adj. not in accordance with scientific laws; "what seemed to be paranormal manifestations"

transmundane

adj. existing or extending beyond the physical world; "whatever of transmundane...insight...we may carry"- William James

witchlike

adj. being or having the character of witchcraft

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