Hypnosis

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  • noun. An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction.
  • noun. Hypnotism.
  • noun. A sleeplike condition.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The production of sleep.
  • noun. The hypnotic state; hypnotism.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Supervention of sleep.
  • noun. The condition of being hypnotized or the process of hypnotizing a person; hypnotism{1}.
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  • noun. a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced
  • noun. the art or skill of hypnotism
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  • noun. 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."
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    automatism  biofeedback  coma  euphoria  hallucination  
    Synonym
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    Arica movement  Erhard Seminars Training  New Consciousness  Pentothal interview  SAT  
    variant
    hypnoses  
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