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Hypnosis

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a trance-like state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility
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Stage 1 of 2
hypnos
Greek · ancient
"sleep"
the Greek god of sleep
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Stage 2 of 2
hypnosis
English · 1840s
"a trance-like state of focused attention"
coined from the Greek root to describe an induced trance state
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