n
Alternative form of acatalepsy [Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.]
n
Alternative form of akoasm [An auditory hallucination]
adj
(medicine) Preventing sleep; causing wakefulness; insomniac.
n
Alternative form of antihypnotic [Any agent that prevents sleep.]
adj
(medicine) Tending to prevent sleep.
n
Alternative form of anxiodepression [comorbid depression and anxiety.]
adj
(pathology) Associated with anxiety and depression
n
(medicine) Self-inflicted enucleation of the eye.
n
A type of self-hypnotic relaxation technique developed by German psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz.
adj
Of or relating to Hippolyte Bernheim (1840–1919), French physician and neurologist best known for his theory of suggestibility in relation to hypnotism.
v
(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
adv
With, or as if with, bulimia.
v
(transitive) To induce a state of catalepsy in.
n
(pathology) Groaning while falling asleep or while sleeping.
n
(informal) A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
n
The trance-like mental state of a cataleptic patient.
n
(medicine) A state in which the patient lies with eyes open, yet unresponsive to the outside world.
n
An automated state of consciousness; actually, the normal consciousness, based on the premise that people believe what they are told to be true as opposed to what they have themselves realized to be true.
n
A hypnotic suggestion designed to send the listener deeper into a state of trance.
n
The process of bringing somebody out of hypnotic trance.
n
Abbreviation of delirium tremens. [(pathology) A psychosis of chronic alcoholism, usually due to alcohol withdrawal, which can be fatal. Symptoms include sweating, tremors, terrifying hallucinations, insomnia, restlessness, disorientation and anxiety.]
n
A drug or other agent that induces a medical state of frank delirium.
n
(medicine) Any substance that tends to cause delirium.
n
the unconsciousness induced as a result of the process
adj
Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
n
A deep state of hypnosis or mesmerism.
adj
Inducing a state of euphoria.
n
A form of hypnosis where the patient is made to enter and leave a trance state many times in quick succession.
n
The situation in which an automated system, typically a driverless car, experiences something that it has not been programmed to expect, and either does nothing or just stops.
v
To enter a trance, state of hypnosis, etc.
n
The return to a fully conscious state after a psychedelic experience.
n
(psychiatry) The quality of being hallucinogenic, i.e. being able to induce hallucinations.
v
To perform haruspication.
n
(informal) A state of mind in which one is distracted, disturbed, or unnerved, whether self-induced or resulting from ill-treatment by others.
adj
Relating to hibernators or to hibernation
n
An automatic mental state in which a person continues to drive a vehicle safely and correctly but without the recollection of having done so.
n
An eating disorder characterized by excessive and compulsive exercise.
adj
Of or relating to a neurological sleep disorder characterized by one- to two-hour daily delays in sleep onset and wake times, i.e. a circadian rhythm greater than a nychthemeron (24 hours).
adj
Of or relating to hypersomnia, excessive sleepiness.
adj
Relating to hypnaesthesis; drowsy
n
(medicine) A condition characterized by dreamlike auditory, visual, or tactile sensations when half-awake.
adj
That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
n
(mediaeval folklore) legendary asp said to kill people by making them go in an endless sleep or by attacking them in their sleep.
n
An involuntary twitch which occurs just as a person is beginning to fall asleep, often causing momentary wakefulness.
n
Psychiatric analysis involving hypnosis.
adj
Relating to hypnoanalysis.
adj
Of or relating to a form of therapy combining hypnotic suggestion and the use of psychedelic drugs.
n
A dominatrix who uses hypnosis.
n
The process of inducing hypnosis.
n
(archaic) induction of hypnotic trance
adj
Alternative spelling of hypnagogic [That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.]
adj
Of, pertaining to, or resembling sleep (or hypnosis)
adj
That induces sleep or hypnosis; hypnic
adj
Relating to hypnology.
adj
Relating to hypnology.
n
One who is versed in hypnology.
n
A treatise on sleep; the doctrine or science of sleep.
n
Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
adj
Of or pertaining to hypnopaedia.
n
Alternative form of hypnopaedia [Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.]
adj
Relating to the state of consciousness before becoming completely awake.
n
Rare spelling of hypnopaedia. [Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.]
adj
Rare spelling of hypnopaedic. [Of or pertaining to hypnopaedia.]
n
rape carried out by first hypnotizing the victim
n
(dated) An instrument intended to determine a person's susceptibility to hypnotic influences.
n
seduction by means of hypnosis
n
The art or skill of hypnotism.
n
(dated) The science of sleep.
n
Surgery carried out with the patient in a state of hypnosis rather than anesthesia.
n
One who undergoes hypnosis.
n
The use of hypnotherapy.
n
Treatment of disease by means of hypnotism.
adj
(pharmacology) Inducing sleep; soporific.
n
Obsolete form of hypnotic. [A person who is, or can be, hypnotized.]
n
Alternative spelling of hypnotizability [the ability to be hypnotized]
v
(transitive) To induce a state of hypnosis in.
n
The art of inducing hypnosis.
adj
Relating to hypnotism.
n
the ability to be hypnotized
n
The act or process of producing hypnotism.
adj
Alternative spelling of hypnotizable [Able to be hypnotized.]
n
A person who is being hypnotized or in a state of hypnosis.
n
One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
n
A hypothetical waste product of the brain proposed by Henri Piéron that causes fatigue and is cleansed by sleep.
adj
(dated) Affected with hypochondria; hypped; melancholy.
n
(medicine) A temporary coma brought on by a controlled dose of an anesthetic drug.
n
Alternative form of catatonia [A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.]
n
A condition similar to highway hypnosis, but induced by repetitive work on an assembly line.
n
A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines.
n
(especially in plural) Intended behaviour during hypnosis
v
(hypnotism) To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject.
adj
Relating to, or causing, brain-washing.
n
Subverting by means of psychological tactics an individual's control of his or her mind (thinking, behavior, emotions or decisions). One acknowledged technique to facilitate this is hypnosis.
adj
(of a drug) Altering the way someone's mind works.
adj
Alternative spelling of mind-bending [Hallucinogenic.]
n
(psychiatry) A state in which a person's body can be put into any posture, although the person has been instructed to resist any movement.
adj
(literary) Pertaining to Morpheus; sleepy, soporific, oneiric.
adj
Morphean; relating to sleep
adj
Of or pertaining to narcohypnosis.
adj
Pertaining to narcolepsy
v
(transitive, rare) To place in a state of narcosis; to narcotize.
n
A sensation of detachment from one's body, the presence of a tunnel of light, the apparent viewing of one's own body from on high, and similar manifestations, experienced by people whose heart and brain have temporarily ceased to function.
n
Alternative form of neurohypnology [(obsolete) hypnotism]
n
(obsolete) A supposed "nerve force" in vitalism.
n
neural induction - a state somewhere between suggestion and hypnosis
n
(obsolete) Alternative form of neurohypnology [(obsolete) hypnotism]
n
A form of light hypnosis.
n
A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
n
(chiefly dated) Any of various forms of disordered sleep.
adj
Relating to parahypnosis.
adj
Relating to a parasomnia
n
(archaic) mesmerism; hypnosis
n
depression of the urge to feed
n
(biology) somnolence (induction of sleep) in a nocturnal animal caused by exposure to light
n
A suggestion, given to a hypnotized person, to perform some action after awakening, especially in response to a cue.
adj
Exhibiting pseudodepression.
n
A false memory, as elicited by hypnosis.
v
(idiomatic) To anesthetize someone or render them unconscious through the use of narcotic substances, usually either alcohol or pharmaceutical drugs.
n
Synonym of highway hypnosis
n
Synonym of highway hypnosis
n
Synonym of seasonal affective disorder
adj
(psychiatry) Characterised by shifts from one state to another.
n
A situation where a person is not fully awake, and although conscious of their surroundings, unable to move or speak, often accompanied by hallucinations and feelings of terror.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a somnambulist.
adj
(science fiction, rare) Pertaining to sleep.
n
(archaic) Sleep induced by hypnosis or similar.
adj
Relating to somniphobia.
n
The condition of being somnogenic
adj
Relating to somnography.
n
The process of inducing the hypnotic state; hypnotism
adj
Of or relating to somnology.
n
(now historical) Self-hypnosis.
n
A state of drowsiness leading to full anesthesia
n
The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
n
The use of hypnotic suggestion.
n
One who believes in the use of hypnotic suggestion.
adj
Relating to hypnotic suggestion.
n
(archaic) One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.
adj
(medicine) of, or related to the loss of consciousness
v
(biology, transitive) To throw (a muscle etc.) into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in.
n
A form of meditation and relaxation that is supposed to induce theta waves in the brain.
n
(countable, psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
adj
Similar to, or reminiscent of, a trance.
adj
In, or inducing, a state of trance.
n
A person who enters a state of trance.
n
The techniques used to induce hypnotic trance.
adj
(informal) Trancelike.
adj
Resembling a trance or trance-like state
n
"an initial phase in the psychotic process that is characterized by intense anguish, an experience of hostility and a feeling of imminent catastrophe".
v
(intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
n
A person experiencing a hallucinogenic trip.
adj
(informal) Strange, surreal, similar to the effects of a hallucinogen.
n
An amnesic condition characterized by insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth.
n
The condition of being viruliferous
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