Difference between Soporific and Hypnotic

What is the difference between Soporific and Hypnotic?

Soporific as a noun is something inducing sleep, especially a drug while Hypnotic as a noun is a person who is, or can be, hypnotized.

Soporific

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something inducing sleep, especially a drug

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Tending to induce sleep.

Hypnotic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of, or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.Inducing sleep; soporific.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who is, or can be, hypnotized.A soporific substance.

Example sentence: Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

We hope you now know whether to use Soporific or Hypnotic in your sentence.

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