thaumaturgy

Other forms of thaumaturgy

plural

thaumaturgies·

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 thaumaturgy

What does thaumaturgy mean?

thaumaturgy means "any art that invokes supernatural powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thaumaturgy?

thaumaturgy has 4 syllables: thau-ma-tur-gy. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for thaumaturgy?

Close synonyms include magic, magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic. 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 thaumaturgy a common word?

thaumaturgy 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.