posthypnotic suggestion
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7.5
- noun
- /ˌpoʊstˌhɪp.nəˈtɪk səˈdʒɛs.tʃən/
- Specialized
:
sugerencia poshipnótica
- I should like to leave you with a posthypnotic suggestion to strengthen your ability to remember those dreams.
Examples
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Results indicated that performances of subjects in three separate conditions receiving posthypnotic suggestions for improved performance were not significantly different.
Academic text (1991) -
You're doing that on posthypnotic suggestion.
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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) -
I'll begin with posthypnotic suggestion, and after, if Preston here is a good subject, regression.
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Look, if Desmond's our boy, he would've covered himself by giving his victims a posthypnotic suggestion to forget him and what he did to them.
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If she had really been hypnotized, she couldn't have resisted a posthypnotic suggestion.
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And the only person who could've given her a posthypnotic suggestion to forget that she had been hypnotized is the hypnotist himself...
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The therapist used a posthypnotic suggestion to help the patient overcome his fear of flying.
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Many people find that a posthypnotic suggestion can effectively change their habits after the session.
Synonyms
A suggestion given during hypnosis to change behavior later
How Influential
307
2.7
- Specialized
1
7.5
- Specialized
4
3.4
759
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'posthypnotic' signals something occurring after hypnosis (post- + hypnotic) and 'suggestion' is a verbal prompt, so together they denote a suggestion given in hypnosis that takes effect afterward. This morphological pattern (post- prefix + noun) is predictable and cross-linguistically common, making the overall meaning readily inferable to a learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Posthypnotic suggestion comes from the parts post meaning 'after', hypnotic meaning 'during hypnosis', and suggestion meaning 'an idea to follow'. It is an idea given while a person is hypnotized that is meant to make them do or feel something after they wake up, so the phrase means a suggestion set during hypnosis to work later.