Diviner vs Magician - What's the difference?
diviner | magician |
One who foretells the future.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
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, title= A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
A person who astounds, is an enigma.
As nouns the difference between diviner and magician
is that diviner is one who foretells the future while magician is a person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.diviner
English
Alternative forms
* devynour, divinour (qualifier); divinor (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (one who foretells the future) foreteller, fortune-teller, prophet, seer, soothsayer * (one who searches for underground water) water diviner, dowserDerived terms
* diviner's sage * water divinerAnagrams
* ----magician
English
(wikipedia magician)Alternative forms
* magitian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians ”.}}