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hypnopedia
[ hip-nuh-pee-dee-uh ]
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypnopedia1
1930–35; hypno- ( def ) + Greek ±è²¹¾±»å±ðò¹ “child-rearing, education,†derivative of ±è²¹Ã®²õ, stem paid- “child†+ -ò¹; first used and possibly coined by Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World (1932); pedo- 1( def ), -ia ( def ). See Hypnos ( def )
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Example Sentences
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My professor, a fierce leftist, alert to the hypnopedia that Berlusconi was putting into practice, decided to abandon academic life and enter politics, as many other intellectuals did at that time.
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Researchers in the 1950s dismantled hypnopedia's more outlandish claims.
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Emotion and memory being moulded into something else by hypnopedia.
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The idea that humans can learn while asleep, a concept sometimes called hypnopedia, has a long and odd history.
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