Autosuggestion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Autosuggestion \Au`to*sug*ges"tion\, n. [Auto- + suggestion.]
     (Med.)
     1. Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming
        from another, especially in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is
        characteristic of certain mental conditions in which
        expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function


        of one or more organs.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. hypnosis induced by oneself.
  
     Syn: self-hypnosis, self-suggestion.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  autosuggestion
       n : hypnosis induced by yourself [syn: {self-hypnosis}, {self-suggestion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "autosuggestion":
     animal magnetism, hypnology, hypnosis, hypnotherapy,
     hypnotic suggestion, hypnotism, mesmerism, mesmerization, od, odyl,
     odylic force, posthypnotic suggestion, power of suggestion,
     self-hypnosis, self-suggestion, suggestibility, suggestion therapy,
     suggestionism