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hypnopedia

hypnopedia is the alternative form 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 hypnopedia

What is hypnopedia the alternative form of?
Hypnopedia is the alternative form of hypnopaedia.

Words near hypnopedia in the dictionary

  1. hypnology
  2. hypnomania
  3. hypnone
  4. hypnopaedia
  5. hypnopaedic
  6. hypnopedia
  7. hypnopedic
  8. hypnophobia
  9. hypnophobic
  10. hypnopompic
  11. hypnopompically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypnopedia (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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