thaumato-, thaumat- +
(Greek: wonder, wondrous thing; miracle; a thing to look at; sight, spectacle)
autothaumaturgist
A person pretending to be mystical or mysterious.
philothaumaturgic
A fondness for works of wonder or miracles.
thaumatogenist
A believer in or advocate of thaumatogeny.
thaumatogeny
The origination of life as a miraculous process.
thaumatography
A writing concerning the wonders of nature or natural wonders.
thaumatolatry
An excessive reverence for, or the worship of, the miraculous or marvelous.
thaumatologist
One who studies or describes miracles.
thaumatology
1. The study, description, or the study of the performance of miracles.
2. An account of miracles, the description or discussion of the miraculous.
Thaumatosaurus
A “wonder lizard” from Early Jurassic Europe. Named by naturalist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1841.
thaumatrope
1. A "magic card" with different pictures on either side so that when the card is rapidly twirled, the images appear to combine as one.
2. Applied to a disk or cylinder bearing a series of figures which, on being rapidly rotated and viewed through a slit, produce the impression of a moving object.
An example is a horse on one side and a rider on the other, so that one gets the image of a rider on horseback.
thaumatropic
Pertaining to or having the nature or effect of a thaumatrope.
thaumatropy
In medicine, the transformation of an organ or structure into another organ or structure.
thaumaturge
Someone who performs magic or miracles.
thaumaturgic
1. Descriptive of the performance of miracles or magic.
2. A reference to the art of constructing marvelous or apparently magical devices.
thaumaturgical
1. A reference to the performance of miracles or magic.
2. The art of constructing marvelous or apparently magical devices.
A cross reference of another word family that is related directly, or indirectly, to: "miracle, wonder, wondrous":
mirac-.
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