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hypnopædia

hypnopædia is the rare spelling of hypnopaedia.

Meaning of hypnopaedia

Noun

hypnopaedia (uncountable)

  1. Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
    • 'In the end,' said Mustapha Mond, 'the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…'1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus
    Synonyms:
    sleep-learning, sleep-teaching

Questions about hypnopædia

What is hypnopædia the rare spelling of?
Hypnopædia is the rare spelling of hypnopaedia.

Words near hypnopædia in the dictionary

  1. hypnopedic
  2. hypnophobia
  3. hypnophobic
  4. hypnopompic
  5. hypnopompically
  6. hypnopædia
  7. hypnopædic
  8. hypnorape
  9. Hypnos
  10. hypnoscope
  11. hypnoscopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypnopædia (page history and authors); hypnopaedia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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