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parahypnosis

noun

Etymology

From para- + hypnosis.

  1. borrowed from ὕπνωσις
  2. prefixed as parahypnosis — “para + hypnosis”

Definitions

  1. Any of various forms of disordered sleep.

    • For example, we know that TV has the effect on us of triggering (among many other processes) an alpha-response, a brainwave summation that, in its relaxation, often leads into parahypnosis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parahypnosis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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