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Animal magnetism   /ˈænəməl mˈægnətˌɪzəm/   Listen
Animal magnetism

noun
1.
Magnetic personal charm.  Synonyms: beguilement, bewitchery.






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"Animal magnetism" Quotes from Famous Books



... levity, the irresistible curiosity, and the peculiar turn of the Parisians, ever solicitous to have something interesting for conversation, to keep their active imagination in play, were exactly suited to the genius and talents of the inventor of animal magnetism. We need not wonder, therefore, if he availed himself of their moral and physical character, to ensure a ready faith in his doctrines, and success to his pretended experiments: in fact, he found friends and admirers ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... Many of them would make excellent subjects for hypnotic experiments. The women particularly were extraordinarily sensitive to animal magnetism. They were much given to hysterical displays. One of the reasons which was given me for hastening the death of moribund Bororos was a curious superstition that the sight of a dying person would cause the death of women, particularly if the dying person happened to look in the direction of one woman ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... rouse himself into preternatural wakefulness. Shallower but also louder, there is magnetic D'Espremenil, with his tropical heat (he was born at Madras); with his dusky confused violence; holding of Illumination, Animal Magnetism, Public Opinion, Adam Weisshaupt, Harmodius and Aristogiton, and all manner of confused violent things: of whom can come no good. The very Peerage is infected with the leaven. Our Peers have, in too many cases, laid aside their frogs, laces, bagwigs; and go about in English costume, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle



Words linked to "Animal magnetism" :   attractiveness, beguilement



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