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posthypnotic suggestion

/ ˌpəʊsthɪpˈnɒtɪk /

noun

  1. a suggestion made to the subject while in a hypnotic trance, to be acted upon at some time after emerging from the trance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

That apparitions of a sort can be induced by hypnotic and posthypnotic suggestion is certain enough (see Hypnotism).

Using this technique, with each subject carrying out a posthypnotic suggestion, intensifies the responses of other subjects.

A special code phrase in the message had released "Stanley Martin" from the posthypnotic suggestion that had held him for so long.

His release from the posthypnotic suggestion had made it possible.

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