hypnopaedia
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See also: hypnopædia
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- hypnopædia (rare)
- hypnopedia (US)
Etymology
[edit]From hypno- (“sleep”) + Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “education”), popularized in the novel Brave New World (1932).[1]
Noun
[edit]hypnopaedia (uncountable)
- Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World[1], London: Chatto & Windus:
- 'In the end,' said Mustapha Mond, 'the Controllers realized that force was no good. The slower but infinitely surer methods of ectogenesis, Neo-Pavlovian conditioning and hypnopædia…'
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 454:
- Sometimes this Malay, a youngish man with a most charming smile, would be deferential to Crabbe, showing great anxiety to learn; at other times he would enter the office as though, in sleep, an angel had visited him, teaching him all in painless hypnopaedia.
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[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “hypnopaedia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.