hypnotist

English

Etymology

From hypnotise +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪpnətɪst/

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Noun

hypnotist (plural hypnotists)

1. A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.
   • 2010, Steve Bavister and Amanda Vickers, Essential NLP (Teach Yourself^®)‎^[1], Great Britain: Hodder Education < Hachette UK Co., published 2014, page 7:

     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.

Synonyms

• hypnotizer

Translations

person who uses hypnotism

• Catalan: hipnotitzador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 催眠師／催眠师 (cuīmiánshī)

• Danish: hypnotisør c
• Esperanto: hipnotisto
• Finnish: hypnotisoija
• French: hypnotiseur (fr) m, hypnotiseuse (fr) f
• German: Hypnotiseur (de) m, Hypnotiseurin (de) f
• Hungarian: hipnotizőr (hu)
• Ido: hipnotisto (io), hipnotero, hipnotiganto (io)
• Irish: hiopnóisí m
• Italian: ipnotizzatore m, ipnotista (it)
• Japanese: 催眠術師 (さいみんじゅつし, saiminjutsushi)
• Kazakh: гипнозшы (gipnozşy)
• Korean: 최면술사 (催眠術士) (choemyeonsulsa)
• Kyrgyz: гипнозчу (gipnozcu)
• Lithuanian: hipnotizuotojas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hypnotisør m

  Nynorsk: hypnotisør m

• Polish: hipnotyzer (pl) m
• Portuguese: hipnotizador m
• Romanian: hipnotizator (ro) m, hipnotizatoare (ro) f
• Russian: гипнотизёр (ru) m (gipnotizjór), гипнотизёрша (ru) f (gipnotizjórša)
• Scottish Gaelic: suainealaiche m
• Spanish: hipnotizador (es) m
• Swedish: hypnotisör (sv) c
• Turkish: hipnozcu
• Welsh: hypnotydd m or f

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