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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hypnopedia

also hypnopaedia, "sleep-learning," 1932, from Greek hypnos "sleep" (see somnolence) + paideia "education" (see pedo-).

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hypnopedia

n. teaching during sleep (as by suing recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) [syn: sleep-learning]

Usage examples of "hypnopedia".

In the afternoons we were cadets and “gentlemen,” and recited on and were lectured concerning an endless list of subjects: math, science, galactography, xenology, hypnopedia, logistics, strategy and tactics, communications, military law, terrain reading, special weapons, psychology of leadership, anything from the care and feeding of privates to why Xerxes lost the big one.