self-hypnosis

1. 1.

   hypnosis induced by yourself

   Broaderhypnosis

Questions about self-hypnosis

What does self-hypnosis mean?

self-hypnosis means "hypnosis induced by yourself".

How many syllables are in self-hypnosis?

self-hypnosis has 4 syllables and divides as self--hyp-no-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is self-hypnosis a common word?

self-hypnosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.