hypnosis
pronunciation
How to pronounce hypnosis in British English:
UK [hɪpˈnəʊsɪs]
How to pronounce hypnosis in American English:
US [hɪpˈnoʊsɪs]
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- Noun:
- a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion
Word Origin
- hypnosis
- hypnosis: [19] Húpnos was Greek for ‘sleep’. From it was derived the adjective hūpnotikós ‘sleepy, narcotic’, which English acquired via Latin and French as hypnotic [17]. At first this was used only with reference to sleep-inducing drugs, but then in the late 18th and early 19th centuries the techniques of inducing deep sleep or trance by suggestion were developed.Early terms for the procedure included animal magnetism and mesmerism (see MESMERIZE), and then in 1842 Dr James Braid coined neurohypnotism for what he called the ‘condition of nervous sleep’. By the end of the 1840s this had become simply hypnotism. Hypnosis was coined in the 1870s as an alternative, on the model of a hypothetical Greek *hypnosis.
- hypnosis (n.)
- 1869, "the coming on of sleep," coined (as an alternative to hypnotism) from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + -osis "condition." Of an artificially induced condition, from 1880.
Example
- 1. Their most common reaction after hypnosis was a big smile .
- 2. Some people are particularly vulnerable and susceptible to hypnosis .
- 3. Hypnosis is an intriguing and fascinating process .
- 4. Objectively speaking you could say this is a form of hypnosis .
- 5. All awakened immediately alert after hypnosis .