Examples of hypnotism in a Sentence
a psychologist who employs hypnotism to treat his patients
some people have undergone hypnotism in order to induce them to give up their smoking habit
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Other topics of his lectures over the years that followed included animal magnetism, hypnotism, and the ether.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
It’s taken 200 years for hypnotism to evolve from a medical treatment to stage gag.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
The speed-freak who next year will stalk King to Memphis, here gets a nose job while trying to learn hypnotism and become a pornographer.
—Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
There’s something like a collective hypnotism happening.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
It’s taken 200 years for hypnotism to evolve from a medical treatment to stage gag.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
The speed-freak who next year will stalk King to Memphis, here gets a nose job while trying to learn hypnotism and become a pornographer.
—Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
There’s something like a collective hypnotism happening.
—John Bleasdale, Variety, 7 Aug. 2023
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“Hypnotism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypnotism. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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hypnotism
noun
hyp·no·tism
ˈhip-nə-ˌtiz-əm 
1
: the study of or act of causing hypnosis
2
: hypnosis
Medical Definition
hypnotism
noun
hyp·no·tism
ˈhip-nə-ˌtiz-əm
2
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