enchantment

[ en-chant-muhnt, -chahnt- ]

noun

1. the art, act, or an instance of enchanting. enchanting.

   Synonyms: witchery, fascination, sorcery, magic

2. the state of being enchanted.
3. something that enchants:

   Music is an enchantment that never fails.

   Synonyms: charm, spell

enchantment

/ ɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt /

noun

1. the act of enchanting or state of being enchanted
2. a magic spell or act of witchcraft
3. great charm or fascination

Word History and Origins

Origin of enchantment¹

1250–1300; Middle English enchantement < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin incantāmentum. See enchant, -ment

Example Sentences

As you gather more materials, you’ll move up to stone, iron, and eventually diamond equipment, while learning how to create enchantments and potions.

From Popular-Science

If Phil is cruel, his intelligence is off the charts—and even he is capable of succumbing to enchantment.

From Time

Each year, the Land of Enchantment sees a handful of cases, in both humans and animals, like dogs and rats.

From Popular-Science

Galileo also understood that while the Church had the pomp and magic of decades of art and music, science had the enchantment of a new invention—the telescope.

From Nautilus

Any book that tries to do justice to Keats must be beautiful at least a fair bit of the time, and “Keats’s Odes,” particularly when its author allows herself to be carried by the force of her enchantment with the poems, satisfies that requirement.

From Washington Post

But I also want jazz to be loved and enjoyed, to serve as a source of enchantment and delight.

From The Daily Beast

A century apart, Paul Rosolie and Henry Walter Bates describe their abiding enchantment with the Amazon.

From The Daily Beast

But as the years go on, you learn about the oily machinery that manufactures all that enchantment.

From The Daily Beast

A prime enchantment was that tourists never visit the Statue of Liberty by night, so there was no electricity on the island.

From The Daily Beast

This is true magic—the enchantment of love, memory, obsession, and the flawed attempts of human beings to understand themselves.

From The Daily Beast

He, Bastien-Lepage, painter of the soil, found himself unable to transfer to canvas the enchantment of that land of fairy tale!

From Project Gutenberg

Realm of enchantment, break your mystic spell, Land of the lotus, smiling land farewell!

From Project Gutenberg

The hard-hearted executor of the law was brought within the influence of her enchantment.

From Project Gutenberg

Do these gentlemen really feel the thunderclap or the enchantment of an object of art?

From Project Gutenberg

If you can work magic, why don't you break the enchantment you are under and return to your proper form?

From Project Gutenberg

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