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Meaning of "hypnopaedia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPNOPAEDIA

From hypno- + Greek paideia education.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPNOPAEDIA

hypnopaedia  [ˌhɪpnəʊˈpiːdɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPNOPAEDIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypnopaedia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPNOPAEDIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sleep-learning

Sleep-learning is an attempt to convey information to a sleeping person, typically by playing a sound recording to them while they sleep. Research, however, has largely discredited the technique's effectiveness.

Definition of hypnopaedia in the English dictionary

The definition of hypnopaedia in the dictionary is the learning of lessons heard during sleep.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPNOPAEDIA


acedia
əˈsiːdɪə
beadier
ˈbiːdɪə
cyclopaedia
ˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə
cyclopedia
ˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə
cypripedia
ˌsɪprɪˈpiːdɪə
encyclopaedia
ɪnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə
encyclopedia
ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪə
epicedia
ˌepɪˈsiːdɪə
hypermedia
ˈhaɪpəˌmiːdɪə
media
ˈmiːdɪə
mixed-media
mɪkst ˈmiːdɪə
multimedia
ˌmʌltɪˈmiːdɪə
needier
ˈniːdɪə
new-media
njuː ˈmiːdɪə
old-media
əʊld ˈmiːdɪə
redia
ˈriːdɪə
reedier
ˈriːdɪə
seedier
ˈsiːdɪə
speedier
ˈspiːdɪə
weedier
ˈwiːdɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPNOPAEDIA

hypnogogic
hypnoid
hypnoidal
hypnoidise
hypnoidize
hypnologic
hypnological
hypnologist
hypnology
hypnone
hypnopompic
Hypnos
hypnoses
hypnosis
hypnotee
hypnotherapist
hypnotherapy
hypnotic
hypnotically
hypnotisability

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPNOPAEDIA

intermedia
mass media
me-media
mixed media
new media
news media
old media
otitis media
print media
printed media
social media
via media

Synonyms and antonyms of hypnopaedia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypnopaedia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPNOPAEDIA

Find out the translation of hypnopaedia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypnopaedia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypnopaedia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hypnopaedia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipnopedia
570 millions of speakers

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hypnopaedia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hypnopaedia
380 millions of speakers
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hypnopaedia
280 millions of speakers

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hypnopaedia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hypnopaedia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hypnopaedia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypnopédie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hypnopaedia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hypnopaedia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hypnopaedia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hypnopaedia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hypnopaedia
85 millions of speakers
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hypnopaedia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hypnopaedia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संमोहन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hypnopaedia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hypnopaedia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hypnopaedia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hypnopaedia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hypnopaedia
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

hypnopaedia
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

hypnopaedia
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hypnopaedia
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

hypnopaedia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypnopaedia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPNOPAEDIA»

The term «hypnopaedia» is used very little and occupies the 183.401 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPNOPAEDIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hypnopaedia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hypnopaedia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypnopaedia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPNOPAEDIA»

Discover the use of hypnopaedia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypnopaedia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
The next conditioning technique is hypnopaedia, sleep-teaching. The Director tells the students it was discovered accidentally hundreds of years earlier by a little Polish boy who lived with his "father" and "mother," two words that hit the ...
Anthony Astrachan, Aldous Huxley, 1984
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Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives
In Soviet countries hypnopaedia or sleep learning is widely practiced. Not only do individuals apparently learn languages during sleep, but it has even been claimed that whole villages have been taught languages by radio at night.
Erika Fromm, Ronald E. Shor, 2009
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Brave New World
Reuben's experience led to the discovery of hypnopaedia, or sleep- teaching. It took nearly two-hundred years for hypnopaedia to be used officially, because experiments attempted to use it for “intellectual education”; these experiments failed ...
Aldous Huxley, 2009
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Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
hyperspeed 95 hypnopaedia Fanspeak Science fiction fans, verbally effusive and never at a. coordinates which mark their relative hyperspatial positions; hyper- spatial— 1951 T. Sturgeon Traveling Crag in Visions & Ventures (1978) 278: Now ...
Jeff Prucher, 2007
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Enhancing Human Performance: Background Papers, Learning ...
Zavalova, N. D., Zukhar', V. P., and Petrov, Y. A. 1968 The question of hypnopaedia (preliminary communication). Pp. 145-151 in F. Rubin, ed., Current Research in Hypnopaedia . New York: American Elsevier. (Originally published in 1964.) ...
Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, 1988
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Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, and Techniques
Zavalova, N. D., Zukhar', V. P., and Petrov, Y. A. 1968 The question of hypnopaedia (preliminary communication). Pp. 145-151 in F. Rubin, ed., Current Research in Hypnopaedia. New York: American Elsevier. (Originally published in 1964.) ...
Daniel Druckman, John A. Swets, National Research Council, 1988
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Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and ...
AmongtheBrave New Worlders, thecontrolof human nature was achievedbyeugenic and dysgenic breeding, by systematic conditioning duringinfancyand, lateron, by “hypnopaedia,” or instruction during sleep. Infant conditioning is as old as ...
Aldous Huxley, Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, 1999
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Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science
93-118. Haber, R.N. and L.R. Haber (1988), “The Characteristics of Eidetic Imagery”, in D. Fein and L.K. Obler (eds.), The Exceptional Brain, The Guilford Press, New York, pp. 218-241. Hoskovec, J. (1966), “Hypnopaedia in the Soviet Union: A ...
OECD, 2007
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Happy-People-Pills For All
Admittedly, this too is a large edit, since so much of the novel is predicated on the idea that hypnopaedia can form the beliefs and desires of the citizenry exactly to the specifications of the Controllers, which is tantamount to admitting that large ...
Mark Walker, 2013
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
hypnopaedia. hyperacidity . - noun an excessive level of acidity, especially in the stomach, ffl 19c. hyperactive c- adj said especially of a child: abnormally or pathologically active. © 19c. hyperactivity - noun, psychol a condition characterized ...
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPNOPAEDIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypnopaedia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sleep Unlearning–Of Racism
learn_sleep_0[1] Sleep Learning or Hypnopaedia was a regular feature of 20th Century sci-fi books, such as Brave New World and many ... «VDARE.com, Jun 15»
2
Could Sleep Learning be used to Clinically Treat Sexism and Racism?
But something close. In the text, it is known as “sleep teaching” or hypnopaedia. And it is a real thing. Typically, sleep teaching takes the form of ... «From Quarks to Quasars, Jun 15»
3
A dream teaching method
In Brave New World, subjects such as Elementary Sex and Class Consciousness are taught by means of hypnopaedia, or sleep-learning. «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 14»
4
TV: Your mind. Controlled.
The bulk of Krugman's research sounds eerily reminiscent of the concept of 'sleep-learning' (also known as sleep-teaching or hypnopaedia) ... «MuslimVillage.com, Aug 13»
5
Sleep on It
These are the thoughts of Bernard Maxwell as he reflects on The World State's sleep-teaching technique, hypnopaedia, in Aldous Huxley's ... «Scientific American, Nov 12»
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Sleep Mask Lets You Control Dreams
wizardsbane 3 years ago in reply to xadam2dudex. Aldous Huxley had the same idea. Luckily for your paranoia, hypnopaedia does not work. «Midweek Politics, May 12»
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Forget Katniss, We Need Montag
... memes and plot devices borrowed — subconsciously or perhaps through hypnopaedia — and smartly repackaged for modern teen readers, ... «Antiwar.com, Apr 12»
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and the Threat of Technological Growth
Each caste is conditioned through hypnopaedia to only think one way, this resembles the culture of our education system and how students are taught to think ... «Student Pulse, Apr 11»
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Sleep learning: Learn a language a week – you must be dreaming!
The theory of sleep learning or "hypnopaedia" was kick-started by novels like Brave New World. Here, having been played a George Bernard ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
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Sound Asleep – The pillow that's no laughing matter
... this is the cure they've all been looking for – whether it be dozing off whilst under intense pressure or revising their gags via hypnopaedia. «Easier, Feb 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hypnopaedia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hypnopaedia>. Apr 2024 ».
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