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Plural of: An artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion

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Usage examples (11)
  • Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.
  • In accordance with the mathematical hypnoses of his era, he studied these six transits.
  • Maybe he's in cahoots with this guy, who apparently wants to lull the candidates into some form of hypnoses.
  • One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions...
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