noun
Meaning 1
Automatic or involuntary action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
automatism
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UK: /ɔːˈtɒmətɪzəm/
noun
Meaning 2
The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The doctrine that all living beings are entirely controlled by physical or physiological causes, where consciousness is a noncontrolling accessory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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Synonyms: epiphenomenalism
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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noun
Meaning 5
An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: telergy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reaction, response
History
Etymology
From automat(on) + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تِلْقَائِيَّة (tilqāʔiyya) — acting automatically
- Belarusian: аўтаматы́зм (awtamatýzm) — acting automatically
- Bulgarian: автомати́зъм (avtomatízǎm) — acting automatically
- Catalan: automatisme — acting automatically
- Chinese Mandarin: 自動性 /自动性 (zìdòngxìng) — acting automatically
- Czech: automatismus — acting automatically
- French: automatisme — acting automatically
- German: Automatismus — acting automatically
- Italian: automatismo — acting automatically
- Khmer: ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិ (svay prɑɑvŏət) — acting automatically
- Polish: automatyzm — acting automatically
- Russian: автомати́зм (avtomatízm) — acting automatically
- Spanish: automatismo — acting automatically
- Ukrainian: автомати́зм (avtomatýzm) — acting automatically
- Polish: automatyzm — physiology