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diabolism
noun as in black magic
Strongest match
noun as in evil
Strong matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- heinousness
- hurt
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- perversity
- ruin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrongdoing
Weak match
noun as in magic
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in peccancy
Weak matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- calamity
- catastrophe
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- harm
- hatred
- heinousness
- hurt
- ill
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misery
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- pain
- perversity
- ruin
- sin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- suffering
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in prestidigitation
Strong matches
- abracadabra
- alchemy
- allurement
- astrology
- augury
- bewitchment
- conjuration
- conjuring
- conjury
- devilry
- divination
- enchantment
- exorcism
- fascination
- foreboding
- horoscopy
- illusion
- incantation
- legerdemain
- magnetism
- necromancy
- occultism
- power
- prediction
- presage
- prophecy
- rune
- soothsaying
- sorcery
- spell
- superstition
- taboo
- thaumaturgy
- trickery
- voodoo
- voodooism
- witchcraft
- wizardry
Weak matches
noun as in thaumaturgy
Strong matches
- abracadabra
- alchemy
- allurement
- astrology
- augury
- bewitchment
- conjuration
- conjuring
- conjury
- devilry
- divination
- enchantment
- exorcism
- fascination
- foreboding
- horoscopy
- illusion
- incantation
- legerdemain
- magnetism
- necromancy
- occultism
- power
- prediction
- presage
- prestidigitation
- prophecy
- rune
- soothsaying
- sorcery
- spell
- superstition
- taboo
- theurgy
- trickery
- voodoo
- voodooism
- witchcraft
- witchery
- witching
- wizardry
Weak matches
noun as in theurgy
Strong matches
- abracadabra
- alchemy
- allurement
- astrology
- augury
- bewitchment
- conjuration
- conjuring
- conjury
- devilry
- divination
- enchantment
- exorcism
- fascination
- foreboding
- horoscopy
- illusion
- incantation
- legerdemain
- magnetism
- necromancy
- occultism
- power
- prediction
- presage
- prestidigitation
- prophecy
- rune
- soothsaying
- sorcery
- spell
- superstition
- taboo
- thaumaturgy
- trickery
- voodoo
- voodooism
- witchcraft
- witchery
- witching
- wizardry
Weak matches
Example Sentences
In addition to lending primacy to the Hanlons’ perspectives, “Welcome to Derry” also takes viewers inside the Indigenous community pushed to the town’s outskirts to explore their relationship to the diabolism known as It.
Whether it manifests as racism, bullying, or subliminal conditioning to self-harm, "Evil" shows us how ordinary and banal most diabolism is.
Whatever their theme — spectral invasion, diabolism, shape-changing — Blackwood expertly builds up an atmosphere of the otherworldly coupled with the spiritually threatening.
Still, be warned: “The Sorcery Club” may seem an example of dated turn-of-the-century diabolism, but I wouldn’t try any of its weird invocations at home.
Then came the pictured rocks—the illustrated newspaper of the aborigines, free, so far as I know, from the diabolism which pollutes the pictorial papers of our time.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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