Hypnotic
adjective
Connected to hypnosis or making someone go into a state of hypnosis.
The mesmerizing speaker had a hypnotic effect on the crowd.
Often appears as...
- hypnotic trance
- hypnotic suggestion
adjective
Having a strong attraction, so that attention is fixed on something.
He watched the hypnotic rise and fall of the waves.
Often appears as...
- hypnotic beauty
- hypnotic rhythm
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Literary
noun
A medicine or drug that makes a person sleep or helps them to relax.
The doctor prescribed a mild hypnotic to help with sleeplessness.
Often appears as...
- prescribed hypnotic
- mild hypnotic
adjective
Connected to hypnosis or making someone go into a state of hypnosis.
The mesmerizing speaker had a hypnotic effect on the crowd.
Often appears as...
- hypnotic trance
- hypnotic suggestion
adjective
Having a strong attraction, so that attention is fixed on something.
He watched the hypnotic rise and fall of the waves.
Often appears as...
- hypnotic beauty
- hypnotic rhythm
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A medicine or drug that makes a person sleep or helps them to relax.
The doctor prescribed a mild hypnotic to help with sleeplessness.
Often appears as...
- prescribed hypnotic
- mild hypnotic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Hypnosis Connection
Use 'hypnotic' to describe something that directly involves hypnosis or metaphorically enchants to a similar degree.
The therapist's hypnotic techniques helped patients manage pain.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Hypnotic' can carry negative connotations, suggesting loss of control or unwilling influence.
The cult leader's hypnotic influence was alarming.
Pro Tip 1/2Hypnosis Connection
Use 'hypnotic' to describe something that directly involves hypnosis or metaphorically enchants to a similar degree.
The therapist's hypnotic techniques helped patients manage pain.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Hypnotic' can carry negative connotations, suggesting loss of control or unwilling influence.
The cult leader's hypnotic influence was alarming.
Pro Tip 1/2Hypnosis Connection
Use 'hypnotic' to describe something that directly involves hypnosis or metaphorically enchants to a similar degree.
The therapist's hypnotic techniques helped patients manage pain.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Positive
'Hypnotic' can carry negative connotations, suggesting loss of control or unwilling influence.
The cult leader's hypnotic influence was alarming.
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Charles Limb: Building...
Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation. You distort it a little bit, especially in terms of pitch, and you've changed it. And it might be that you kind of like that. That's kind of hypnotic. But it certainly wasn't the way the music was intended.
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What "Orwellian" really...
a hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world
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Why should you read...
This musical sensibility makes Murakami’s work all the more hypnotic. He frequently bends the line between reality and a world of dreams, and is considered a master of magic lurking in the mundane. This is a key feature of magical realism. In contrast to fantasy,
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How Dolly Parton led me...
here was the quintessential story move we would do. We'd bring on somebody -- Steven It's one of the most hypnotic and spellbinding spectacles in nature, because, you have to keep in mind, it is absolutely silent. Jad Like this guy, mathematician, Steve Strogatz,
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Why is the Mona Lisa so...
published a popular biography of Italian Renaissance artists, Leonardo included. The book was translated and distributed widely, and it contained a gushing description of the “Mona Lisa” as a hypnotic imitation of life.
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Why should you read...
and hoaxes that in some cases anticipated science fiction. Those included an account of a balloon voyage to the moon, and a report of a dying patient put into a hypnotic trance so he could speak from the other side.
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Lesley Hazleton: A...
And yet the more you add, the more seems to go missing. The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed. It wants to be chanted out loud,
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Enric Sala: Journey to...
another paradise full of top red or full of sharks and watching these sharks swim patrol over the reef looking for prey was like watching an underwater ballet it was totally hypnotic and again we
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Ireland’s Underwater...
when I find myself in this hypnotic world surrounded by amazing curious creatures staggeringly beautiful
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What's Wrong with These...
The trauma of attack can initiate another hypnotic state.
Video examples
Charles Limb: Building...
Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation. You distort it a little bit, especially in terms of pitch, and you've changed it. And it might be that you kind of like that. That's kind of hypnotic. But it certainly wasn't the way the music was intended.
Video examples
What "Orwellian" really...
a hypnotic state of cognitive dissonance in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world
Video examples
Why should you read...
This musical sensibility makes Murakami’s work all the more hypnotic. He frequently bends the line between reality and a world of dreams, and is considered a master of magic lurking in the mundane. This is a key feature of magical realism. In contrast to fantasy,
Video examples
How Dolly Parton led me...
here was the quintessential story move we would do. We'd bring on somebody -- Steven It's one of the most hypnotic and spellbinding spectacles in nature, because, you have to keep in mind, it is absolutely silent. Jad Like this guy, mathematician, Steve Strogatz,
Video examples
Why is the Mona Lisa so...
published a popular biography of Italian Renaissance artists, Leonardo included. The book was translated and distributed widely, and it contained a gushing description of the “Mona Lisa” as a hypnotic imitation of life.
Video examples
Why should you read...
and hoaxes that in some cases anticipated science fiction. Those included an account of a balloon voyage to the moon, and a report of a dying patient put into a hypnotic trance so he could speak from the other side.
Video examples
Lesley Hazleton: A...
And yet the more you add, the more seems to go missing. The Arabic has an incantatory, almost hypnotic quality that begs to be heard rather than read, felt more than analyzed. It wants to be chanted out loud,
Video examples
Enric Sala: Journey to...
another paradise full of top red or full of sharks and watching these sharks swim patrol over the reef looking for prey was like watching an underwater ballet it was totally hypnotic and again we
Video examples
Ireland’s Underwater...
when I find myself in this hypnotic world surrounded by amazing curious creatures staggeringly beautiful
Video examples
What's Wrong with These...
The trauma of attack can initiate another hypnotic state.
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Byron Katie
American Author
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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Federico Fellini
Italian Director
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Noah Hawley
American Producer
Legion' is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There's a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.
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Nick Sagan
American Novelist
Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.
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Fritz Kreisler
Austrian Composer
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
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Edward Zwick
American Director
We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.
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Eric Clapton
British Musician
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
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Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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Ken Jennings
American Celebrity
There's just something hypnotic about maps.
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Byron Katie
American Author
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
Quote examples
Federico Fellini
Italian Director
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Quote examples
Noah Hawley
American Producer
Legion' is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There's a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.
Quote examples
Nick Sagan
American Novelist
Life in space is impossible,' we're warned, and amidst the hypnotic beauty of these heavens, we become painfully aware of what a hostile environment space is, how unforgiving, how unsympathetic to human desires.
Quote examples
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian Composer
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
Quote examples
Edward Zwick
American Director
We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.
Quote examples
Eric Clapton
British Musician
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
Quote examples
Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
Quote examples
Havelock Ellis
British Psychologist
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
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Ken Jennings
American Celebrity
There's just something hypnotic about maps.
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