enchantment
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- n a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
- n a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
- n a magical spell
- Novelist Herman Wouk knows the pull of that enchantment.
- In order to beguile, nobility must undergo re-enchantment every generation or so.
- Film enchantment, of a baroque species that mixes the sordid with the soaring, is Gilliam's specialty--that, and making movies with big ideas and impossibly spectacular imagery.