Synonyms of incantation

incantation

noun

ˌin-ˌkan-ˈtā-shən 

as in spell

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

hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious incantations

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of incantation

The effect, when it is sung in unison by a crowd of 80,000 people, is akin to a kind of incantation. — Tom Williams, New York Times, 9 June 2026

There is a bopping, rhythmic assonance to Ginsberg’s unspooling lines, more incantation than poetry. — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026

As prospective farmers struggled to clear forests for rice fields in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Malaya, their efforts might have been accompanied by mystical incantations like this invocation against Iblis, the Devil in Islamic tradition. — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 24 Apr. 2026

With the bullet spinning faster and faster like some kind of magical incantation. — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2026