Myth & LegendGreek → English
Hypnosis
A trance-like state of focused attention.
The Greek roots
ὕπνος
hýpnos
sleep
Literally: “a sleep-like state”
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The story of the word
Named after Hypnos, the god of sleep — the same root gives insomnia its '-hypnia' cousins.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
Under hypnosis he recalled the forgotten address.