necromancy

Other forms of necromancy

plural

necromancies·

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 necromancy

What does necromancy mean?

necromancy means "the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in necromancy?

necromancy has 4 syllables: nec-ro-man-cy. The stress falls on "nec". In IPA it is /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsi/.

What is another word for necromancy?

Close synonyms include sorcery, black magic, black art. 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 necromancy a common word?

necromancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.