Hypnosis is a sleeplike state in which somebody is open to suggestion. Under hypnosis, hypnosis for pain, put him under hypnosis.
Nobody can be made to act against their nature under it, which is the misconception that films keep alive. Its best-established uses are for pain and for irritable bowel syndrome, and memories recovered under hypnosis are notoriously unreliable.
1nounhypnosisA sleeplike state in which somebody is open to suggestion.
“She tried hypnosis to help her give up smoking.”
hypnosis is a state.
From Greek hypnos, sleep, in a modern scholarly formation.
Ancient Greek
ὕπνωσις
English, today
hypnosis
Built from
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕπνωσις, from und + ὑπνόω. From modern scholarly Ancient Greek ὕπνωσις, which formation closes the derivational gap between the ancient words ὑπνόω (“I put to sleep”) and ὑπνωτικός (“sleep-inducing, soporific”). Ultimately traces back to ὕπνος (“sleep”).
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