Definition of Hypnotic

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Hypnotic

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.

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Hypnotic Quotations

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard

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.
Eric Clapton

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
Richard Le Gallienne

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation, thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
Henry Reed

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
John Fahey

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
Havelock Ellis

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.
Fritz Kreisler

Hypnotic Translations

hypnotic in German is hypnotisch
hypnotic in Hungarian is hipnotikus
hypnotic in Swedish is hypnotisk

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