enchantment

1. 1.

   a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

   Synonymscaptivationenthrallmentfascination

   Broaderliking
2. 2.

   a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

   Synonymsspelltrance

   Broaderpsychological state

   Narrowerpossessionfascination
3. 3.

   a magical spell

   Synonymsbewitchment

   Broadersorcery

Other forms of enchantment

plural

enchantments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enchantment

What does enchantment mean?

enchantment means "a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enchantment?

enchantment has 3 syllables: en-chant-ment. The stress falls on "chant". In IPA it is /ɛnˈtʃæntmənt/.

What is another word for enchantment?

Close synonyms include captivation, enthrallment, fascination, spell, trance. 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 enchantment a common word?

enchantment 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.

What rhymes with enchantment?

1 word rhymes with enchantment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.