Examples of hypnotism in a Sentence
a psychologist who employs hypnotism to treat his patients
some people have undergone hypnotism in order to induce them to give up their smoking habit
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This hypnotism is especially conveyed through the film’s costumes.
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Eugenie Dalland, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Other topics of his lectures over the years that followed included animal magnetism, hypnotism, and the ether.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
It’s taken 200 years for hypnotism to evolve from a medical treatment to stage gag.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
The speed-freak who next year will stalk King to Memphis, here gets a nose job while trying to learn hypnotism and become a pornographer.
—Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
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Eugenie Dalland, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Other topics of his lectures over the years that followed included animal magnetism, hypnotism, and the ether.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 12 Apr. 2024
It’s taken 200 years for hypnotism to evolve from a medical treatment to stage gag.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
The speed-freak who next year will stalk King to Memphis, here gets a nose job while trying to learn hypnotism and become a pornographer.
—Matt Thompson, Spin, 10 Sep. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hypnotism
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“Hypnotism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypnotism. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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hypnotism
noun
hyp·no·tism
ˈhip-nə-ˌtiz-əm 
1
: the study of or act of causing hypnosis
2
: hypnosis
Medical Definition
hypnotism
noun
hyp·no·tism
ˈhip-nə-ˌtiz-əm
2
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