pathetism
English
editEtymology
editCompare French pathétisme.
Noun
editpathetism (uncountable)
- (archaic) mesmerism; hypnosis
- 1843, La Roy Sunderland, Pathetism: With Practical Instructions:
- From the foregoing pages it will have been seen, that by what I denominate pathetism, is meant susceptibility to the influence of an agency which is concerned in every feeling or emotion , or passion , or action which was ever felt