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hypnosis (n.)
1869, "the coming on of sleep," coined (as an alternative to
hypnotism
) from
hypno-
"sleep" +
-osis
"condition." But the distinction was not sustained, and by 1880
hypnosis
was being used of artificially induced conditions.