hypnopedia
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hypnopedia
1930–35; hypno- ( def. ) + Greek paideía “child-rearing, education,” derivative of paîs, stem paid- “child” + -ía; first used and possibly coined by Aldous Huxley in his novel Brave New World (1932); see pedo- 1 ( def. ), -ia ( def. ). See Hypnos ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Emotion and memory being moulded into something else by hypnopedia.
From Turning Point by Alfred Coppel
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