Enchantment

Word ENCHANTMENT
Character 11
Hyphenation en chant ment
Pronunciations /ənˈtʃɑːntmənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Enchantment"

What do we mean by enchantment?

The act of enchanting. noun

The state of being enchanted. noun

Something that enchants. noun

The pretended art or act of producing effects by the invocation or aid of demons or the agency of spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation; that which produces magical results noun

The state or condition of being enchanted, literally or figuratively; especially, a very delightful influence or effect; a sense of charm or fascination. noun

That which enchants or delights; the power or quality of producing an enchanting effect. noun

Synonyms Charm, fascination, magic, spell, sorcery, necromancy, witchery, witchcraft. noun

Rapture, transport, ravishment. noun

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. noun

The effect produced by the act; the state of being enchanted. noun

That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights. noun

The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted. noun

Something that enchants; a magical spell. noun

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation noun

A magical spell noun

A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual noun

The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.

Something that enchants; a magical spell.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Enchantment

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The word "enchantment" in example sentences

Even at the filthy commercial end of the process, enchantment is possible; for every writer knows, there has to be the invisible snagging trick at the beginning, a kind of promise to their reader. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Essentially, evocation and enchantment is it for wizards now. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nobody can understand our literature, our poetry if the power of enchantment is removed from the word. ❋ Unknown (1968)

The danger of enchantment is that it can quickly cloy, but Herbert’s version of it never did. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is the opposite of addiction: one might call it enchantment. ❋ Michael Chorost (2011)

F.T.B. 20, 81.) (b) Enchanted creatures: fish jumps back into the water after being cooked; pigeons fly away after being cooked; hero enchants animals in the wilds by music; hero by enchantment is made to forget and desert his wife and child; cow gives milk all day without bearing young, and her dung is golden. ❋ Unknown (1894)

They had many glamorous nights on the roof, nights that recalled the enchantment of those hours under the Aurora, nights of severe mental reservation on Marcella's part, all unsuspected by Louis. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)

The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure, a spiritual state very like to that cardiac condition which the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani, using a phrase almost as beautiful as Shelley's, called the enchantment of the heart. ❋ Joyce, James, 1882-1941 (1922)

But the enchantment was the reverse of that of Circe; for so far was there from being any thing sensual in it, that I was all mind. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

But the enchantment was the reverse of that of Circé; for so far was there from being any thing sensual in it, that I was _all mind_. ❋ James Boswell (1767)

If "enchantment" keeps the bean counters and English PhD's at their distance, then bring it on. ❋ Roger Sutton (2009)

I was meditating on these things when a fresh and sudden kind of enchantment set the whole assembly in motion, for who moves not at the sound of musick? ❋ Unknown (2009)

'A kind of enchantment took possession of my mind and sences too on Friday evening, from eight till twelve O'clock. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can't help but wonder, young medievalist that I am, if that interpretation of the medieval instinct (about architecture, perhaps, but no less medieval for that) might ultimately be the one we should long for: the unresting search for change, rather than Brooks 'wish for enchantment, meaning and symbols. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

But that kind of enchantment -- the kind that only aspires to the "dream" without committing to actions in the world -- isn't an antidote to industrialization or anything else, because it doesn't live in the world, but somewhere above it, outside it, beyond it. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2008)

Engaging with Akeel Bilgrami's recent rehabilitation of "enchantment," Jager argues for the critical power of Byronic enchantment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Here I want to honor the attempt — no small one — to put a concept like "enchantment" to work. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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