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

Thus have the dreamy Oriental Moslem and the self-hypnotized Western professor met together to elicit truth from trance.

From Project Gutenberg

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