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Hypnotize vs Hypnotizer - What's the difference?

hypnotize | hypnotizer |

As a verb hypnotize

is to induce somebody into a state of hypnosis.

As a noun hypnotizer is

one who, or that which, hypnotizes.

hypnotize

English

Alternative forms

* hypnotise (Commonwealth, not OED or Canada )

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To induce somebody into a state of hypnosis.

    • Synonyms

    * mesmerize

    Derived terms

    * hypnotizable * hypnotizability * hypnotism * hypnotist

    Related terms

    * hypnotic

    hypnotizer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 20, author=George Prochnik, title=Freud’s Family Tree, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=We also encounter Jean-Martin Charcot, Freud’s first mentor in Paris, who charted the stages of hysteria and proposed that the power of hypnosis depended upon the abnormal nervous condition of the hypnotized, not the magus-like potency of the hypnotizer . }}

    Synonyms

    * hypnotist