sleep produced by hypnotism or mesmerism
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• (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.
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1. Any disorder of sleep. ... Synonym: hypnotism. ... Origin: L. Somnus, sleep, + G. Pathos, suffering ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Som·nip'a·thy noun [ Latin
somnus sleep + Greek ... a suffering of the body, from ..., ..., to suffer.] Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [ Written also
somnopathy .]
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somnipathy 1. Sleep from sympathy (a reference to the influence exerted by one individual upon another, or received by one from another, and the effects thus produced, as seen in hypnotism, and in yawning) or by the process of mesmerism. 2. A state of sleep induced by hypnosis or mesmerism. 3. Disturbance of sleep; any disorder of sleep.
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