hypnopedia

[hip-nuh-pee-dee-uh]

noun

1. sleep learning.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypnopedia¹

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); pedo- ¹ ( def. ), -ia ( def. ). See Hypnos ( def. )

Example Sentences

My professor, a fierce leftist, alert to the hypnopedia that Berlusconi was putting into practice, decided to abandon academic life and enter politics, as many other intellectuals did at that time.

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Researchers in the 1950s dismantled hypnopedia's more outlandish claims.

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Emotion and memory being moulded into something else by hypnopedia.

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The idea that humans can learn while asleep, a concept sometimes called hypnopedia, has a long and odd history.

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