What is another word for transmutations?

Pronunciation: [tɹansmjuːtˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

The word "transmutations" describes a process of changing or transforming something into a different form. Synonyms for this word include metamorphosis, transfiguration, alchemy, mutation, conversion, transmutation, and transmogrification. Each of these words captures the idea of a significant change or transformation taking place. For example, metamorphosis emphasizes a dramatic or profound change, while alchemy suggests a mysterious or magical transformation. Transmutation and transfiguration are similar to transmutations and imply a significant change from one form to another. Whether in scientific, spiritual, or literary contexts, these synonyms for transmutations help to convey the idea of profound and transformative change.

What are the hypernyms for Transmutations?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Transmutations

And our North British Reviewer makes a similar comment: "The believer who is at liberty to invent any imaginary circumstances, will very generally be able to conceive some series of transmutations answering his wants."
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
It would therefore appear that environment should be all-potent to modify them and produce specific modifications, while the extreme rapidity with which they propagate their kind, and that unisexually, ought to require no vast extent of time to make such transmutations apparent.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
The factors that govern human nature are so many and so complex, their transmutations and combinations are so numerous, that it is as well to tread cautiously, and to a very considerable extent leave the future to take care of itself.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen

Famous quotes with Transmutations

  • Plato wove together separate threads from three earlier philosophers: the mathematics of Pythagoras, the atomism of Demokritos, and the four elements of Empedokles. As happens with the best scientific syntheses, the resulting theory transformed the components from which it started, and was intellectually more powerful than any of them. For these geometrical atoms differed from those of Demokritos in having a number of definite shapes, governed by precise mathematical theorems; and furthermore, they were no longer immutable, but could change into one another in ways that could be related back to their geometrical compositions. As a result, Plato could envisage transmutations of a kind that Demokritos did not allow for, and so introduced a new, quantitative element into the analysis of material change. ...For the regular solids can all be built up from two simple triangles... the fundamental elements of his theory.
    Plato
  • But still less should the gold of rich men lazily sleep its heavy sleep in the urns and gloom of treasuries. This so weighty metal, when it becomes the associate of a fancy, assumes the most active virtues of the mind. It has her restless nature. Its essence is to vanish. It changes into all things, without being itself changed. It raises blocks of stone, pierces mountains, diverts rivers, opens the gates of fortresses and the most secret hearts; it enchains men; it dresses, it undresses women with an almost miraculous promptitude. It is truly the most abstract agent that exists, next to thought. But thought exchanges and envelops images only, whereas gold incites and promotes the transmutations of all real things into one another; itself remaining incorruptible, and passing untainted through all hands.
    Paul Valéry

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