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Hypnosis

Supervention of sleep.

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Hypnotic 74% connected

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

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Hypnotic 74% connected

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

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Hypnotize 74% connected

To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

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Hypnotize 74% connected

To induce hypnotism in; to place in a state of hypnotism.

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Aboulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Abulia noun · 86% connection

a loss of will power

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Anhedonia noun · 86% connection

an inability to experience pleasure

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Catathymia noun · 86% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Cognitive state noun · 86% connection

the state of a person's cognitive processes

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Decentering noun · 86% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 86% connection

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Delusion noun · 86% connection

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

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Delusions of grandeur noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are

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Delusions of persecution noun · 86% connection

a delusion (common in paranoia) that others are out to get you and frustrate and embarrass you or inflict suffering on you; a complica…

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Depersonalisation noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Depersonalization noun · 86% connection

(existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine

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Disassociation noun · 86% connection

a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently

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Frame of mind noun · 86% connection

a temporary psychological state

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Hallucinosis noun · 86% connection

a mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Identity crisis noun · 86% connection

distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about one's self and one'…

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Mental condition noun · 86% connection

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any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychia…

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5-hydroxytryptamine noun · 78% connection

a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory

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Agrypnotic noun · 78% connection

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

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Alarm noun · 78% connection

A mechanical contrivance for awaking persons from sleep, or rousing their attention; an alarum.

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Antihypnotic adjective · 78% connection

Tending to prevent sleep.

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Arouse verb · 78% connection

To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to…

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Asleep a. & adv. · 78% connection

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

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Awake verb · 78% connection

To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

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Awaken verb · 78% connection

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

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Awakening adjective · 78% connection

Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discours…

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Bed noun · 78% connection

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in…

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Bed-wetting noun · 78% connection

enuresis during sleep; especially common in children (who usually outgrow it)

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Berth noun · 78% connection

A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

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