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Suggestion vs Hypnosis - What's the difference?

suggestion | hypnosis |

As nouns the difference between suggestion and hypnosis

is that suggestion is (countable) something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for ) while hypnosis is a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility]], and in which suppressed [[memory|memories may be experienced.

suggestion

Noun

  • (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
  • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
  • (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  • (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    Synonyms

    * (something suggested) proposal * See also

    Derived terms

    * autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion box

    hypnosis

    Noun

    (hypnoses)
  • a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility]], and in which suppressed [[memory, memories may be experienced
  • the art or skill of hypnotism
  • See also

    * somnolism * mesmerism