AUTOMATISM
\ˈɔːtəmətˌɪzəm], \ˈɔːtəmətˌɪzəm], \ˈɔː_t_ə_m_ə_t_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of AUTOMATISM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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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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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.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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1. A state of independence of the will or of central innervation, said of the heart's action. 2. A condition in which movements are made without conscious exercise of the will. 3. A condition in which a neuropathic or psychopathic individual is consciously or unconsciously, but involuntarily, compelled to the performance of certain acts, often purposeless and sometimes foolish or harmful.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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State of doing things without consciousness.
By William R. Warner
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Performance of acts without conscious volition.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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