hypnotic

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  1. adjective Of or relating to hypnosis.
  2. adjective Of or relating to hypnotism.
  3. adjective Inducing or tending to induce sleep; soporific: read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice.
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  • It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe while he guarded against intruders. —  0 Jerusalem - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 05
  • A modified hypnotic, as you may be able to tell from the taste. —  117 - They Died Twice
  • The riffs on Can I Have A Kissare hypnotic, the desolate lonliness of Irvine heartbreaking, and the ever catchy One Minute is better than the entire of Breakaway.
  • Mr. Ades 'five-minute pitch was hypnotic, and whenever I saw him on a corner-in Midtown, at Union Square (he had various favorite locations) - I'd always stop to watch, even though I'd seen his spiel countless times and even though I had already bought a couple of his peelers. —  Serious Eats: New York
  • "True to its name, San Francisco's Built for the Sea crafts lush indie-rock that is at once dreamy, hypnotic, and emotionally powerful." —  The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music
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  1. French hypnotique, from Late Latin hypnōticus, inducing sleep, from Greek hupnōtikos, from hupnoun, to put to sleep, from hupnos, sleep; see swep- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French hypnotique, from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Greek ὑπνωτικός, inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, from ὑπνοῡν, put to sleep, from ὐπνος, sleep, = Latin somnus, sleep: see somnolent, etc.
 

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