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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks [syn: prestidigitation, sleight of hand]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from prestidigitateur prestidigitator, from preste nimble, quick (from Italian presto) + Latin digitus finger — more at digit Date: 1859 sleight of hand, legerdemain • prestidigitator noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prestidigitation Pres`ti*dig`i*ta"tion, n. Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Legerdemain, sleight-of-hand, juggling, prestigiation.

Moby Thesaurus

Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjuration, delusiveness, escamotage, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hokey-pokey, idealization, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, immateriality, jiggery-pokery, jugglery, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, trickery, unactuality, unreality, unsubstantiality