Other forms: enchantments
An enchantment is a spell that changes or charms. Break the enchantment, under an enchantment, a powerful enchantment.
In stories it is the magic that transforms a prince into a beast or holds a castle asleep, and the plot is usually about breaking it. The other sense is the state of being delighted beyond ordinary pleasure: the enchantment of a first snowfall. Note enchant, enchanting, enchanted; and that disenchanted, meaning disillusioned, is the same magic wearing off and is far commoner than the magic itself.
1nounenchantmentA spell that changes or charms.
“The witch's enchantment turned the prince into a frog.”
2nounstateThe state of being delighted beyond ordinary pleasure.
“The children watched the first snow falling in silent enchantment.”
enchantment is a spell or delight.
Old French enchantement comes from Latin incantare, to sing a spell over — in plus cantare, to sing. Chant, cant and incantation are the same singing, so an enchantment is something sung at you.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂n-
Old French
enchantement
Middle English
enchauntement
English, today
enchantment
From Middle English enchauntement, from Old French enchantement.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Myths & Legends, Fairy Tales & Folklore