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Witchcraft vs Antimagic - What's the difference?

witchcraft | antimagic |

As a noun witchcraft

is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.

As an adjective antimagic is

(rare) opposed to magic or witchcraft.

witchcraft

English

(wikipedia witchcraft)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
  • * 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis , chapter XLIV:
    • And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
    Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .

    See also

    * spellcraft * gypsycraft English words suffixed with -craft

    antimagic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Opposed to magic or witchcraft.
  • * 2002 , Richard Lachmann, Capitalists in Spite of Themselves
    • Second, French clerics enjoyed strong support from the crown and lay elites in their antimagic campaigns
  • (in fiction) Serving to counteract magic or its effects.
  • * 2005 , Matthew Kane, A Player's Guide to Deminar

    • See also

    * antimagic square