hypnotic effect

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describes the power or influence that something has to mesmerize or induce a trance-like state.

hypnoticADJECTIVE + NOUN

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effect

Examples (10)

  • The rhythmic drumming created a hypnotic effect on the audience.
  • She spoke with such calm that her words had a hypnotic effect.
  • The artist's swirling colours produced a truly hypnotic effect on the viewer.
  • Watching the flames dance had a strangely hypnotic effect on him.
  • Many find the sound of ocean waves to have a calming, almost hypnotic effect.
  • The repetition of the mantra had a powerful hypnotic effect on the meditators.
  • The magician's smooth movements generated a hypnotic effect that distracted the crowd.
  • Its glowing lights cast a hypnotic effect across the dark room.
  • The slow, continuous motion of the pendulum had a hypnotic effect on her.
  • The novel's prose had such a hypnotic effect that I couldn't put it down.