black art

Questions about black art

What does black art mean?

black art means "the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world".

What is another word for black art?

Close synonyms include sorcery, black magic, necromancy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black art a common word?

black art is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.