posthypnotic
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7.6
- adjective
- /ˌpoʊstˌhɪp.nəˈtɪk/
- Specialized
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poshipnótico
- The therapist used a posthypnotic suggestion to help her patient overcome anxiety.
- posthypnotic suggestion
Examples
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- And then you were awakened in a posthypnotic state with a word that would put you back under again.
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I should like to leave you with a posthypnotic suggestion to strengthen your ability to remember those dreams.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yet he is very susceptible to posthypnotic suggestion.
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Finally, posthypnotic suggestions to inhibit performance produce significant changes in the expected direction.
Academic text (1991) -
Using posthypnotic suggestion... she will now be able to induce a trance at will.
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If she had really been hypnotized, she couldn't have resisted a posthypnotic suggestion.
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After the session, John was given a posthypnotic suggestion to improve his focus at work.
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The effects of a posthypnotic suggestion can last long after the hypnosis has ended.
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.5
A suggestion given while someone is deeply relaxed to make them do something after waking
- Specialized
A person cannot remember things that happened during hypnosis after the session
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Posthypnotic breaks into post- meaning 'after' and hypnotic from a Greek word for 'sleep', as in hypnosis. So a posthypnotic effect is something that appears or changes 'after' a hypnosis session.