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illusionist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun illusionist has 2 senses
- illusionist(n = noun.person) seer, visionary - a person with unusual powers of foresight; Array is a kind of intellect, intellectual
- illusionist(n = noun.person) conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator - someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience; Array has particulars: escape expert, escapologist, mind reader, telepathist, thought-reader
has particulars: anticipant, anticipator, diviner, fantast, futurist, forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer
is a kind of performer, performing artist
Derived form noun illusion4
CIDE DICTIONARY
illusionist, n.
- One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer. [1913 Webster]
- A magician or conjurer who produces illusions by sleight of hand; a prestidigitator. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
illusionist, n. a person who produces illusions; a conjuror.
Derivative
illusionism n. illusionistic adj.
THESAURUS
illusionist
Merlin, Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjurer, delusiveness, escamoteur, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, idealization, illusionism, illusiveness, immateriality, juggler, mage, magian, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, magus, prestidigitation, prestidigitator, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand performer, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, tricker, trickster, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality
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