Hypnotist

//ˈhɪpnətɪst// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.

    "Following their modelling of Perls and Satir, Bandler and Grinder went on to model Milton H. Erickson, the world’s foremost medical hypnotist. The result was a different set of language patterns, the Milton Model, and the publication of the second NLP book, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson MD."

  2. 2
    a person who induces hypnosis wordnet

Synonyms

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hypnotizerhypnotiserhypnotizermesmeristmesmeristmesmerizer

Example

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"The hypnotist was able to put his subject into a trance."

Etymology

From hypnotise + -ist.

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