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hypnoscopes

hypnoscopes is the plural of hypnoscope.

Meaning of hypnoscope

Noun

hypnoscope (plural hypnoscopes)

  1. (dated) An instrument intended to determine a person's susceptibility to hypnotic influences.
    • From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann in Vienna constructed considerably stronger hypnoscopes, through which 66 per cent. of those examined showed the above mentioned sensitiveness […]1889, Humboldt library of science, number 113, page 13

Questions about hypnoscopes

What is hypnoscopes the plural of?
Hypnoscopes is the plural of hypnoscope.

Words near hypnoscopes in the dictionary

  1. hypnopædia
  2. hypnopædic
  3. hypnorape
  4. Hypnos
  5. hypnoscope
  6. hypnoscopes
  7. hypnosedation
  8. hypnosedative
  9. hypnosedatives
  10. hypnoseduction
  11. hypnoses

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