A fork of Rural Dictionary
When something happens by itself but is unexpected and the cause is not seen.
Miles and Ambre’s love is happening automagically.
Automagical, Automagically
Marketing speak to make an already uncomplicated user input / automated process seem like something more than it is; this term dates back to 1987.
A push of a button and your image is automagically transformed to a needlepoint masterpiece!
pertaining to the one's belief that the best will happen with no effort on her/his part.
The 2011 NYS budge will automagically appear (despite the Legislature failing to create it).
to perceive something has happening all on its own, as if by magic; a way to describe something that is both automatic and magical
your such a pig, do you think this place just cleans itself automagically or what?
Extremely annoying word computer nerds use to describe things software does by itself and with no exception would be far better replaced with the word 'automatically'.
The system will automagically create the next user id number for you.
Correction of my own entry below:
Pointless and pretentious word used to add no meaning at all to normal english sentences pertaining to the kind of automated proceedure computers were designed to do right from the very beginning of their invention. Almost every sentence in which this word appears can be improved upon by removing it.
"Sign in check-box automagically for 2 weeks", from bebo's sign in page.
"Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph", from Big Huge Labs page.
Term used by IT professionals to describe technical processes to mouth-breathers with an IQ roughly equal to their shoe size.
Project manager "How were you able to get the database to export to all of our client terminals?"
IT Professional "it happens automagically"