HYPNOPEDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypnopedia mean? 

• HYPNOPEDIA (noun)
  The noun HYPNOPEDIA has 1 sense:

1. teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)

  Familiarity information: HYPNOPEDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPNOPEDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

hypnopedia; sleep-learning

Hypernyms ("hypnopedia" is a kind of...):

instruction; pedagogy; teaching (the profession of a teacher)

 Context examples 

Hypnopedia, or the ability to learn during sleep, was popularized in the '60s, with for example the dystopia Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in which individuals are conditioned to their future tasks during sleep. This concept has been progressively abandoned due to a lack of reliable scientific evidence supporting in-sleep learning abilities.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)