Synonyms of bewitchment

bewitchment

noun

bi-ˈwich-mənt 

1

as in spell

a spoken word or set of words believed to have magic power

the hope that there was some bewitchment that would turn their jerky son-in-law into a prince

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spell
• curse
• incantation
• sorcery
• enchantment
• invocation
• glamour
• conjuration
• charm
• witchcraft
• magic
• abracadabra
• whammy
• hex
• voodoo
• wizardry
• witchery
• necromancy
• jinx
• talisman
• amulet
• conjuring
• cantrip
• fetish
• bewitchery
• mojo
• voodooism
• phylactery

2

as in witchcraft

the power to control natural forces through supernatural means

while stuck in traffic, I could have used a bit of bewitchment to clear the road of other drivers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• witchcraft
• sorcery
• magic
• wizardry
• enchantment
• witchery
• necromancy
• thaumaturgy
• devilry
• mojo
• conjuring
• diablerie
• voodooism
• bewitchery
• talisman
• curse
• divination
• incantation
• glamour
• amulet
• spell
• spiritualism
• charm
• divining
• alchemy
• fetish
• occultism
• ensorcellment
• conjuration
• soothsaying
• phylactery
• forecasting
• jinx
• mascot
• abracadabra
• prophesying
• fortune-telling
• exorcism
• sortilege
• omen
• hoodoo
• foretelling
• predicting
• augury
• foreseeing
• crystal gazing
• augur
• hex
• periapt
• presaging
• prognosticating
• foreknowing
• hexerei

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• science

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bewitchment

Irving then alerts us to the prevalence of bewitchment in the region, setting us up for the Gothic tale to follow. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Her work, then, is the work of resuscitation via bewitchment. — Ocean Vuong, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025

But if there is some kind of bewitchment going on in these encounters, Evelyn is entirely immune. — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025

One depends on a set of abstract rules; the other on a sequence of mutual bewitchments. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019

Here, where both land and life are flat, the privations of rural teenage existence yield wild and elemental bewitchments. — New York Times, 1 June 2017

The ergot fungus grows on cereals such as rye and produces several neurological symptoms that were historically attributed to bewitchment for many centuries. — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015