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hypnotizable

hypnotizable

1 7.9
Able to enter a calm, focused state when someone gives suggestions
  • adjective
  • /hɪpˈnɑːtəˌzaɪbəl/
  • US
: hipnotizable
  • Certain traits indicate that a person is hypnotizable, such as an open mind and a willingness to be influenced.
  • highly hypnotizable

I got hypnotized and surprised like I'm highly hypnotizable.

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Examples

  • People who are highly hypnotizable often show greater responsiveness to suggestions during therapy.

  • I'm extremely hypnotizable and self hypnosis or assisted hypnosis.

  • People who are less hypnotizable are actually the people who need to learn to be more hypnotizable.

  • You know, I so I want to be hypnotizable, but from what I can tell, I am mildly hypnotizable at best.

  • Has there any work done on how hypnosis and people who are hypnotizable and how that works with their sleep and their sleep patterns?

  • I, I have, I'm not very hypnotisable, it turns out.

  • And for people that are highly hypnotizable, the success rates at, for instance, smoking cessation, pain relief are pretty impressive.

  • So some people are highly hypnotizable that when you put them in a trance, time gets distorted very quickly.

  • Well, I mean, there's only 8% of the population that's, like, highly hypnotizable.

  • They're they're really not hypnotizable Fascinating.

How Susceptible

hypnotizable
  • US
1 7.9
susceptible
80 5.5
unresponsive
29 4.7
immune
71 4.2

Surface Forms

hypnotizable positive

Morphology

hypnotizable = hypnotize (transparent) = hypnotize + able

Clear adjectival formation from the verb 'hypnotize' with the productive suffix '-able', yielding 'able to be hypnotized'.

Etymology

The word hypnotizable comes from the Greek root hypno- meaning 'sleep' and the ending -able meaning 'can be'. So a hypnotizable person is 'able' to go into a sleep-like state or to be easily influenced by suggestion.