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Definition: Automatism |
AutomatismNoun1. Any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "automatism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Any device or system which is self-acting or self-regulating and replaces or augments man in the sense of control. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Automatic, mechanical, and apparently undirected behavior which is outside of conscious control. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are two types of automatism: mediumistic automatism, in which the speech, writing or behaviour produced is purported to be communicated from ghosts, spirits or the like, channelling through a psychic or medium, and surrealist automatism.
In law, automatism is the state of acting involuntarily, as in sleepwalking.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Automatism."
Crosswords: Automatism |
| English words defined with "automatism": Involuntariness. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Automatism" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (automatism), Romanian (automatism). |
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| "Automatism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Automatism" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
automatism | 15 |
automatism psychic | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "automatism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veprim automatik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تلقائي (automatic, automatical, impulsive, involuntary, spontaneous, unprompted), عمل أوتوماتيكي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | автоматизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | automatismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | automatisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | automatisme, automatie, automatisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | automatiikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | automatisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Automatik (automatic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοματισμός (automatic nature, automaticity, automation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אוטומטיות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gépiesség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | automatismo (automaticity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | automatismay automatismo (automatic nature, automaticity). (various references) automatism. (various references) автоматизм. (various references) automatizam. (various references) automatismo. (various references) automatik. (various references) мимовільний рух, автоматізм. (various references) tính tự động (self-action, spontaneity, spontaneousness), tác dụng tự động, h nh động máy móc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "automatism": automatisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "automatism" (pronounced 'Au*tom"a*tism'): Absolutism, Achromatism, Acrotism, Anabaptism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Anathematism, Andabatism, Anthropomorphitism, Anti-Semitism, Aphetism, Aplanatism, Apophlegmatism, astigmatism, Athletism, Autohypnotism, BAPTISM, Bimastism, Brutism, Catadicrotism, Cenobitism, Chromatism, Commatism, Comtism, Concettism, Conservatism, Cosmopolitism, Cretism, Dynamitism, hypnotism, Mephitism, Metagrammatism, Metasomatism, Mimetism, moderatism, Monocrotism, Narcotism, Nazaritism, Nepotism, Parasitism, Pathetism, Pedobaptism, Phonetism, Pietism, Pleochromatism, Pococurantism, Polycrotism, Polymastism, Porphyrogenitism, Pragmatism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-m-o-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: atomism, atomist, stomata, tatamis. | |
-4 letters: amusia, autism, imaums, miaous, miasma, mimosa, mutism, omasum, osmium, ostium, outsat, outsit, somata, summit, tatami, utmost. | |
-5 letters: amias, ammos, atmas, atoms, autos, imams, imaum, iotas, maims, maist, mamas, matts, mauts, miaou, miasm, mitts, moats, moist, momus, motts, mutts, omasa, omits, ostia, stoai, stoat, stoma, stout, summa, sutta, tamis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-m-o-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: automatisms. | |
+3 letters: semiautomatic. | |
+4 letters: semiautomatics, ultramontanism. | |
+5 letters: ultramontanisms. | |
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