Mystic vs. Magician — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to mysticism or mystics

A sorcerer; a wizard.

Deeply or mysteriously spiritual; mystical

One who performs magic for entertainment or diversion.

Of or relating to religious mysteries or occult rites and practices.

One whose formidable skill or art seems to be magical

Inspiring a sense of mystery or wonder

A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.

One who practices or believes in mysticism or a given form of mysticism

A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts.

Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.

A performer of tricks or an escapologist or an illusionist.

Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.

An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.

Someone who practices mysticism.

A person who astounds; an enigma.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon.

An entertainer who produces seemingly magical effects by clever illusions; most magicians admit that the craft is mere illusion, rather than a true supernatural art.

Employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical explanations; - contrasted to logical, rational, analytical.

Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience

One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.

One who practices magic or sorcery

Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding;

Relating to or resembling mysticism;

Relating to or characteristic of mysticism;