hypnotic

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1. hypnotic - Noun

2. hypnotic - Adjective

3. hypnotic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders. John Updike

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. Christopher Hitchens

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

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

There is no hypnotic phenomenon, no matter how remarkable it may appear, which cannot be re-created outside of a hypnotic state through such ordinary devices such as suggestion, hype and the exercise of charisma. Derren Brown

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell. Roald Dahl

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