hypnoidadj.1
/ˈhɪpnɔɪd/ Botany.
Belonging or akin to the genus Hypnum.
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sphagnous1828
splachnoid1833
acrocarpous1842
hypnoid1852
lycopodiaceous1852
astomous1857
pleurocarpous1858
gymnostomous1861
sphagneous1861
syncladous1863
systylous1863
stegocarpous1884
systylious1887
trioperculate1900
megasporangiate1901
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. xv. 481 The surrounding rocks are covered with jungermannias and hypnoid mosses.
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hypnoidadj.2
/ˈhɪpnɔɪd/ Psychology.
Applied to a state of consciousness characterized by heightened suggestibility or dissociation, such as occurs in hysterical conditions.
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tarantular1857
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hypnoid1898
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pithiatic1910
1898 B. Sidis Psychol. of Suggestion xxiii. 234 By the term ‘hypnoid’ I indicate the coexistence of two or more fully independent functioning constellations of moments-consciousness, such as is presented in the phenomena of automatic writing and of hysteria.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience xvi. 413 To the medical mind these ecstasies signify nothing but suggested and imitated hypnoid states.
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method 241 Silberer, who first investigated this kind of hypnoid hallucinations.
1924 J. Riviere et al. tr. S. Freud Coll. Papers I. 34 Splitting of consciousness..exists in a rudimentary fashion in every hysteria and..the tendency to this dissociation—and therewith to the production of abnormal states of consciousness, which may be included under the term ‘hypnoid’—is a fundamental manifestation of this neurosis.
1951 R. Brun Gen. Theory Neuroses iii. 333 Fantasies in hypnoid conditions, such as constantly occur in hysteria, will even more readily produce regressive excitations in the most disparate organs.
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hypˈnoidal adj. in the same sense.
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hysterical1603
mothersick1618
hysteric1655
tarantulary1781
hysteroid1839
hysteriform1843
hysteroidal1852
tarantular1857
hysterogenic1879
hysterogenous1879
hypnoid1898
hypnoidal1898
pithiatic1910
1898 B. Sidis Psychol. of Suggestion xxiii. 239 In hypnoidal states past, outlived experiences heave up into the upper consciousness.
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method 173 Brewer's supposition that the foundation and condition of hysteria may be the existence of hypnoidal (sleep-like) states.
1921 Discovery Nov. 294/1 A similar [half-waking] state can be produced artificially and is called light hypnosis or the hypnoidal state.
1970 R. R. Monroe Episodic Behavioral Disorders ii. 45 Abrupt alteration in awareness, such as [is] seen in petit mal or hypnoidal states.
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