hypnopaedia

See also: hypnopædia

English

Alternative forms

• hypnopædia (rare)
• hypnopedia (U.S.)

Etymology

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Noun

hypnopaedia (uncountable)

1. Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 454:

     Sometimes this Malay, a youngish man with a most charming smile, would be deferential to Crabbe, showing great anxiety to learn; at other times he would enter the office as though, in sleep, an angel had visited him, teaching him all in painless hypnopaedia.

Synonyms

• sleep-learning
• sleep-teaching

Related terms

• hypnopaedic