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Definition of Animal magnetism
1. Noun. Magnetic personal charm.
Generic synonyms: Attractiveness
Derivative terms: Beguile, Bewitch
Definition of Animal magnetism
1. Noun. Sexual attractiveness; charisma derived from non-intellectual characteristics. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A magnetic fluid or ethereal medium said to reside in the bodies of animate beings. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Animal magnetism
1. A psychic force akin to the property of mutual attraction or repulsion possessed by metal magnets and once believed to be the principal factor in hypnosis, which thus was called animal magnetism. See: hypnosis, mesmerism. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Animal Magnetism
Literary usage of Animal magnetism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Nature: A Monthly Record of Zoistic Science and Intelligence (1867)
"PHILOSOPHY OF animal magnetism AND SPIRITUALISM." THIS is an important and
interesting addition to the literature of these subjects, which although ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He proposes to apply the name of animal magnetism to that property of the living
body which renders it susceptible to the influence of the heavenly bodies ..."
3. Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1912)
"JESUS. or animal magnetism was first brought into notice by Mesmer in Germany in
1775. Ac- 3 cording to the American Cyclopaedia, he regarded this ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"For a time, however, animal magnetism fell into disrepute ; it .became a system
of downright jugglery, and Mesmer himself was denounced as a shallow empiric ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"Л great change, certainly for the better, has taken place in the philosophy of
animal magnetism. Instead of being brought forward as something altogether ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"Lest the imputation of sustaining the many wild vagaries of animal magnetism
should be attributed to this article, it will be necessary to remark, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"Iris said that when Dr. Treviranus, an eminent physician of Bremen, visited
London, Coleridge, who took a deep interest in the subject of animal magnetism, ..."
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