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Hypnosis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction.

n. Hypnotism.

n. A sleeplike condition.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced

n. the art or skill of hypnotism

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Supervention of sleep.

n. The condition of being hypnotized or the process of hypnotizing a person; hypnotism{1}.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The production of sleep.

n. The hypnotic state; hypnotism.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion

Word Usage

"Professor Whorwell concludes, The term hypnosis was coined by a Manchester surgeon, James Braid, early in the nineteenth century, and it's been in and out of fashion ever since."

Cross Reference

mesmerism somnolism

Variant

hypnoses

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hypnotism

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