Crossword-Solution: HYPNOTISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypnotism | n. | A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “HYPNOTISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ARTIFICIAL production of state resembling deep sleep | 1 answer |
| STATE in which subject acts only on external direction/suggestion | 1 answer |
| STATE resembling deep sleep, production of | 1 answer |
| inducing hypnosis in someone | 1 answer |
| mesmerism | 4 answers |
| SLEEPLIKE state | 6 answers |
| Attraction | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with HYPNOTISM (5)
That's the terrible hypnotism of war, the brute mass-impulse, the pride and national spirit, the instinctive simplicity of men that makes them worship what is their own above everything else.
All words had left the other man’s mouth, and Father Brown said, like one going back to fundamentals: “Leonard Quinton was a romancer, and was writing an Oriental romance about wizardry and hypnotism.
Several years ago, a book on hypnotism, far in advance of the public thought, was written and is to be published this year.
What is the logical deduction to be drawn from all this? Simply that people do not see with their eyes or judge with their understandings; that an all-pervading hypnotism, an ambient suggestion, at times envelops us taking from people all free will, and replacing it with the taste and judgment of the moment.
But the word "Spiritualism" has been so befouled by wicked charlatans, and so cheapened by many a sad incident, that one could almost wish that some such term as "psychic religion" would clear the subject of old prejudices, just as mesmerism, after many years of obloquy, was rapidly accepted when its name was changed to hypnotism.
Quotes with HYPNOTISM (3)
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New Yor…
Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows how to command, the more urgently one covets someone who commands, who commands severely — a god, prince, class, physician, father confessor, dogma, or party conscience. From this one might perhaps gather that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, may have owed their …
Saint-worship is not the same as hero-worship; it is a much less dangerous thing than hero-worship. For hero-worship generally means the absorption or transmutation of some part, at any rate, of one's own original ideas of goodness under the heat and hypnotism of some strong personality. But saint-worship, especially when it is a worship of saints whom we know little or nothing about, is simply the worship of that tradition of goodness in which the saint's name has been embal…