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hypnotizability

hypnotizability

1 9.9
How easily a person goes into a trance when someone guides them
  • noun
  • /ˌhɪp.nə.tɪˈzaː.bɪ.lɪ.ti/
  • Specialized
: hipnotizabilidad
  • Her ability to experience deep relaxation and focus indicated a high level of hypnotizability during the experiment.

Well, I would say that what hypnotizability is in part about is sort of experiential intensity.

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Examples

  • Researchers found that individuals with high hypnotizability can easily enter a trance during hypnosis sessions.

  • Well, I would say that what hypnotizability is in part about is sort of experiential intensity.

    Dr. Mayim Bialik

  • I was going to ask what hypnotizability is, Is it synonymous with cognitive flexibility?

  • So people had greater hypnotizability after they got active stimulation versus when they got sham.

    Andrew Huberman

  • Chezmanq proposes a completely unfounded connection between passivity and hypnotizability, which has nothing to do with the reported research and is in any case completely wrong.

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  • The therapist measured the subjects' hypnotizability to determine their suitability for the study on hypnosis effects.

Surface Forms

hypnotizability singular
hypnotizabilities plural

Morphology

hypnotizability = hypnotizable (transparent) = hypnotize + able + ity

Built from 'hypnotize' + '-able' (forming 'hypnotizable') then + '-ity'; the meaning 'degree/ability to be hypnotized' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Hypnotizability comes from hypno- meaning 'sleep' and the ending -ability meaning 'ability to be', and it shares the same root as hypnosis. So, hypnotizability is the 'ability to be' put into a sleep-like or trance state, in other words how easily someone can be hypnotized.