of, relating to, or taking place in the period following hypnosis
posthypnotic in American English
(ˌpoʊsthɪpˈnɑtɪk)
adjective
of or carried out in the period following a hypnotic trance
posthypnotic suggestion
posthypnotic in American English
(ˌpousthɪpˈnɑtɪk)
adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the period after hypnosis
2. (of a suggestion)
made during hypnosis so as to be effective after awakening
Derived forms
posthypnotically
adverb
Word origin
[1885–90; post- + hypnotic]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: reactor, retread, scrum, seminar, sensitizationpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)