self-hypnotized

American  

[self-hip-nuh-tahyzd, self-] / ˌsɛlfˈhɪp nəˌtaɪzd, ˈsɛlf- /

adjective

1. hypnotized by oneself.

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Other Word Forms

• selfhypnotization noun

Example Sentences

A distinct, self-hypnotized voice fills each room, describing its environment as a limbo where life is frozen, even as it drifts into nothingness.

From New York Times

Life-long mental habits withered and shriveled and vanished in microscopic flakes until into her self-hypnotized consciousness there came the eternal query of the female who has stopped running, "What can I give to this man?"

From Project Gutenberg

It is obvious that there was frequent and barefaced trickery, particularly on the part of Frederica's sister and the ubiquitous servant girl; but it is equally certain that Frederica herself was a wholly abnormal creature, firmly self-deluded, one might say self-hypnotized, into the belief that the dead consorted with her.

From Project Gutenberg

A curious thing about those self-hypnotized subjects is that they carry out perfectly their own ideals of the personality with whom they believe themselves to be possessed.

From Project Gutenberg

That is to say, nothing but the pretense upon which cupidity and self-hypnotized credulity battened and fattened.

From Project Gutenberg