Definition of Hypnology

1. n. A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

Definition of Hypnology

1. Noun. A treatise on sleep; the doctrine or science of sleep. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hypnology

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Medical Definition of Hypnology

1. A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep. Origin: Gr. Sleep. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnology

hypnocatharsis
hypnocinematograph
hypnocyst
hypnocysts
hypnodontics
hypnogenesis
hypnogenic
hypnogenic spot
hypnogogic
hypnoid
hypnoid state
hypnoidal
hypnologies
hypnologist
hypnologists
hypnology (current term)
hypnone
hypnones
hypnopaedia
hypnopaedic
hypnopedia
hypnophobia
hypnopompic
hypnopompic hallucination
hypnopompic image
hypnopædia
hypnopædic
hypnoses
hypnosis
hypnotee

Literary usage of Hypnology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF NEUROLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, MEDICAL ELECTRICITY AND hypnology. (Corrected Announcement.) First Session—Brussels, from September 14 to ..."

2. Our Hidden Forces: ("La Psychologie Inconnue") An Experimental Study of the by Émile Boirac (1917)
"... CHAPTER VI NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD IN hypnology THE observations made in the foregoing chapter were the starting-point of new researches. ..."

3. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"hypnology (Liégeois) has been used for the science of artificially induced sleep and trance-like states. ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"hypnology (Liégeois) has been used for the science of artificially induced sleep and trance-like states. ..."

5. Doctors and Patients: Or, Anecdotes of the Medical World and Curiosities of by John Timbs (1873)
"Some thirty years ago, there lived in Regent Street, London, Mr. Gardner, a practitioner of ' hypnology, or Sleep at will,' or sound and refreshing sleep. ..."

6. A Manual of the History of Philosophy by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann, Arthur Johnson, John Reynell Morell (1852)
"This view seems somewhat countenanced by the recent discovery of new branches of the science, which have been styled Neuro- hypnology and Electro-Biology. ..."

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