Hypnotism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HYPNOTISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the science or practice of hypnosis
• the study or practice of hypnosis.
• inducing hypnosis in someone
• A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.
• the act of inducing hypnosis
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the study or act of inducing hypnosis — compare mesmerism

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How to use HYPNOTISM in a sentence

• The great truth which the science of hypnotism has brought to light is the dual nature of the human mind.
• Among the achievements of Eastern hypnotism is the recovery of the memory of past births.
• The informed Hindu, rightly or wrongly, regards the Western practice of hypnotism, both in its methods and in its results, with mingled horror and contempt.
• He could not reconcile them altogether with hypnotism.
• This sensuous sympathy with recurring sounds, rhythm, and pitch has something in common with hypnotism, and leads up to what I have called suggestion in music.
• If there was in him any power of hypnotism, and he still believed there was, he meant to exert it to the full.
• There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850.
• Here hypnotism had its origin, and the fact was established that sleep could be induced by physical agents.
• On all these points practically every student of hypnotism is agreed.
• The word hypnotism means sleep, and the definition of hypnotism implies artificially produced sleep.
• These experiments are cited in some recent books on hypnotism, apparently with faith.
• It takes little reflection to convince any one that hypnotism for amusement, either on the public stage or in the home, is highly obnoxious, even if it is not highly dangerous.
• It is a safe rule to place hypnotism in exactly the same category as drugs.
• This has suggested the use of hypnotism in surgery in the place of chloroform, ether, etc.
• About the year 1860 some of the medical profession hoped that hypnotism might come into general use for producing insensibility during surgical operations.
• If the regular physician were a student of hypnotism he would know how to manage cases like that.
• Cocke treated a large number of cases, which he reports in detail in his book on hypnotism.
• We have some fairly well known instances of hypnotism produced in animals.
• There is no doubt that hypnotism is a complex state which cannot be explained in an offhand way in a sentence or two.
• In a thoroughly scientific treatise, the foundation of the whole would, of course, be laid in a discussion of psychology, physiology, and the phenomena of hypnotism.
• It explains the great value of hypnotism in the cure of disease and in surgical operations.
• And no one has the gift of specious logic and stump hypnotism better than Douglas.
• Charles Richet and others have since referred to it, but Professor Bernheim was the first one to demonstrate its full significance in the realm of hypnotism.
• At present the problem of the connection between magnetism and hypnotism is under investigation, and in such a manner that we may hope for a speedy solution.

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