What's the difference between thaumaturgy and wizardry?

Thaumaturgy


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.

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Wizardry


Definition:

  • (n.) The character or practices o/ wizards; sorcery; magic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
  • (2) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
  • (3) The author encountered a patient who had undergone various sorcery and wizardry practices.
  • (4) Our trip over, we take one final look out from our luxurious room, back up the valley to the stupendous Matterhorn, and agree no amount of interior design wizardry can compete with that view.
  • (5) As Wilshere observed City’s pinball-wizardry pass him by, did he wonder what-might-have-been regarding the proposed move here?
  • (6) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
  • (7) Campaign insiders say that the emphasis this year will be on efficiency more than any headline-grabbing technical wizardry.
  • (8) The game also demanded intimate knowledge of the first three Wizardry titles, making it stunningly inaccessible.
  • (9) Gaubeca said that the US border with Mexico had seen the introduction of hi-tech wizardry developed in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, such as unmanned drones, ground motion sensors, thermal imaging and night-vision goggles.
  • (10) Nine years ago, Chalmers formed a group called Urban Eden to preserve this wizardry.
  • (11) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
  • (12) Technological wizardry aside, for sensory marketing to be successful it should continue to take its cues from human insights.
  • (13) They could be identified, profiled and targeted by the technical wizardry of professional pollsters.
  • (14) The dreams of patients, in which unconscious pressures come to the surface, are perceived to confirm the existence and reality of wizardry assault.
  • (15) Cameron said of New Labour's time in office: "The City, which should have been a powerhouse of competition and creativity, became instead a byword for a sort of financial wizardry that left the taxpayer with all the risk, and a fortunate few with all of the rewards.
  • (16) Current boss Pascal shows me his special room, where all his wizardry and magic happens.
  • (17) In 2001, it emerged a rare hatchet fish in BBC series The Blue Planet was "reanimated" using computer wizardry after the genuine fish that was captured by programme-makers died.
  • (18) We now know the banks' tricks involved not just dubious wizardry but a measure of wickedness too.
  • (19) Dickson said he hoped Shkreli’s “financial wizardry” would alert the authorities to the loopholes in the law.
  • (20) These movies combine apparently forward-looking technological FX wizardry with a deeply conservative commitment to Manichean violence.