of hypnosis or hypnotism; under the influence of hypnosis; inducing sleep, soporific, sedative
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Hypnotic Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
(n.)
A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
(a.)
Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
(a.)
Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutHaving the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
hypnotic
\hyp*not"ic\ (?), a. [gr. &?; inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, fr. &?; to lull to sleep, fr. &?; sleep; akin to l. somnus, and e. somnolent: cf. f. hypnotique.]
1. having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
2. of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
hypnotic
\hyp*not"ic\, n. 1. any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
2. a person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
Tending to produce sleep.
Noun
1. a drug that induces sleep
(synonym) soporific
(hypernym) drug
(hyponym) narcoleptic
Adjective
1. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
(synonym) mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding
(similar) attractive
Hypnotic Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
Hypnotic Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Hypnotic (also called soporific) drugs are a class of psychoactives whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia, and in surgical anesthesia. When used in anesthesia to produce and maintain unconsciousness, "sleep" is metaphorical as there are no regular sleep stages or cyclical natural states; patients rarely recover from anesthesia feeling refreshed and with renewed energy. Because drugs in this class generally produce dose-dependent effects, ranging from anxiolysis to production of unconsciousness, they are often referred to collectively as sedative-hypnotic drugs. Hypnotic drugs are regularly prescribed for insomnia and other sleep disorders, with over 95% of insomnia patients being prescribed hypnotics in some countries. Many hypnotic drugs are habit-forming and, due to a large number of factors known to disturb the human sleep pattern, a physician may instead recommend alternative sleeping patterns, sleep hygiene, and exercise, before prescribing medication for sleep. Hypnotic medication when prescribed should be used for the shortest period of time possible.
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Hypnotic Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
Hypnotism [from Greek hypnos sleep] One name for an artificially produced somnambulistic, entranced, or psychologized state. A better word for the procedure is psychologization, hypnotism being but one phase of the general subject which includes fascination, multiple or double personality, some religious ecstasies, and different methods of psychic healing. All these things operate in and upon the important intermediate part between our spiritual and physical-astral self and usually affect the latter self very strongly. This intermediate part is the human soul of the reincarnating entity -- the man or woman we see and know. As this includes the psychomental-emotional powers and faculties, it is intimately related to intelligence and sanity, to emotions and conduct, and to health.
Theosophy holds that mesmerism is not hypnotism. In hypnotism the subject's intermediate nature is disjoined from its natural relations with his physical and astral body and put out of the control of the person himself, becoming susceptible to other influences. This process is a reversal of all evolutionary currents which in every being unfold and manifest from conscious centers within. Such a reversal is dangerous and far-reaching in its results, spiritually, mentally, morally, psychically, and physically.
Moreover, the hypnotizer endangers himself by such intimate linking with the lower mind and feeling of his subject -- whose spiritual nature is always beyond another's control.
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Theosophy holds that mesmerism is not hypnotism. In hypnotism the subject's intermediate nature is disjoined from its natural relations with his physical and astral body and put out of the control of the person himself, becoming susceptible to other influences. This process is a reversal of all evolutionary currents which in every being unfold and manifest from conscious centers within. Such a reversal is dangerous and far-reaching in its results, spiritually, mentally, morally, psychically, and physically.
Moreover, the hypnotizer endangers himself by such intimate linking with the lower mind and feeling of his subject -- whose spiritual nature is always beyond another's control.
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Hypnotic Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
A drug which produces a state clinically indentical to sleep by means of action in the central nervous system.
Cf. Sedative , Anesthetic
Cf. Sedative , Anesthetic
