What's the difference between hymnology and hypnology?
Hymnology
Definition:
(n.) The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology.
(n.) A knowledge of hymns; a treatise on hymns.
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Hypnology
Definition:
(n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.
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(1) Experimental psychology contributes to hypnology and vice versa and it is pointed out that this mutual relationship should be looked at as a function of the significance of methodology in psychology and of the way in which such methodology has been developing.
(2) The principal stages in the history of hypnosis are reviewed, from the forerunners of Mesmer to the founder of "animal magnetism" himself, to Braid, and the entire hypnological movement of the nineteenth century.