Mesmerize vs Hypnosis - What's the difference?
mesmerize | hypnosis |
To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
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, title= 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
As a verb mesmerize
is to exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.As a noun hypnosis is
a trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility]], and in which suppressed [[memory|memories may be experienced.mesmerize
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Alternative forms
* mesmerise (UK)Verb
(mesmeriz)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized , like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}