hypnotic
adjective/hɪpˈnɒtɪk/
/hɪpˈnɑːtɪk/
- making you feel as if you are going to fall asleep, especially because of a regular, repeated noise or movement synonym mesmerizing, soporific
- hypnotic music
- His voice had an almost hypnotic effect.
- [only before noun] connected with or produced by hypnosis
- a hypnotic trance/state
- (of a drug) making you sleep
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French hypnotique, via late Latin from Greek hupnōtikos ‘causing sleep’, from hupnoun ‘put to sleep’, from hupnos ‘sleep’.
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