Antonyms for hypnagogic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hip-nuh-goj-ik, -goh-jik
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhɪp nəˈgɒdʒ ɪk, -ˈgoʊ dʒɪk


Definition of hypnagogic

Origin :
  • 1868, from French hypnagogique, from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + agogos "leading" (see act). Etymologically, "inducing sleep," but used mostly with a sense "pertaining to the state of consciousness when falling asleep."
  • As in dreamlike : adj resembling a dream
  • As in sleep-inducing : adj putting to sleep
Example sentences :
  • The first is hypnagogic hallucination, the second coloured audition.
  • Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
  • On the contrary, hypnagogic illusion is, with me, a decided phenomenon.
  • Extract from : « Metapsychical Phenomena » by J. Maxwell
  • And there are crystal-seers who are not subject to hypnagogic illusions.
  • Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang
  • These ‘hypnagogic illusions’ Pontus de Tyard described in a pretty sonnet, more than three hundred years ago.
  • Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang
  • For bad visualisers, on the other hand, the vividness of these hypnagogic pictures may be absolutely a revelation.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers
  • In these respects, and in the awakeness of the scryer, crystal pictures differ from hypnagogic illusions.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various
  • The experience of hypnagogic illusions also seems far more rare than ordinary dreaming in sleep.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

Synonyms for hypnagogic

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