All occultism synonyms

noun occultism

• augury — An augury is a sign of what will happen in the future.
• horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
• palmistry — the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person's hand.
• prediction — an act of predicting.
• premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
• prognostication — the act of prognosticating.
• prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
• soothsaying — the practice or art of foretelling events.
• clairvoyancy — the faculty of clairvoyance
• abracadabra — Abracadabra is a word that someone says when they are performing a magic trick in order to make the magic happen.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• cant — a salient angle.
• chant — A chant is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again.
• charm — Charm is the quality of being pleasant or attractive.
• cheating — an instance of rule-breaking
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• conjuring — the performance of tricks that appear to defy natural laws
• deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• gibberish — meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• imposture — the action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
• incantation — the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.
• jargon — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
• juggling — Continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others, typically for the entertainment of others.
• legerdemain — sleight of hand.
• magic — the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic.
• mummery — the performance of mummers.
• mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• nonsense — words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
• rigmarole — an elaborate or complicated procedure: to go through the rigmarole of a formal dinner.
• spell — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• gobbledegook — language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
• hocus — to play a trick on; hoax; cheat.
• monkey business — frivolous or mischievous behavior.
• mumbo jumbo — meaningless incantation or ritual.
• open sesame — any marvelously effective means for bringing about a desired result: Wealth is the open sesame to happiness.
• sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
• smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
• fascination — the power or action of fascinating.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• wizardry — the art, skill, or accomplishments of a wizard.
• alchemy — Alchemy was a form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, which was concerned with trying to discover ways to change ordinary metals into gold.