Meaning of AUTOMATISM
| Pronunciation: | | o'tâmu`tizum
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| | Definition: | | [n] any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) |
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| | See Also: | | reaction, response | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Au*tom"a*tism\, n.
The state or quality of being automatic; the power of
self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action.
(Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
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| | Related Terms: | | automatic control, automatic writing, automation, automatization, bad habit, blind impulse, characteristic, compulsiveness, conditioning, creature of habit, custom, echolalia, echopraxia, force of habit, habit, habit pattern, habitude, impulse, instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness, levitation, materialization, Ouija, pattern, peculiarity, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, practice, praxis, psychography, psychorrhagy, reflex action, second nature, self-action, self-activity, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-motion, self-propulsion, self-regulation, sheer chemistry, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, table tipping, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, trance speaking, trick, unwilledness, usage, use, way, wont |
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