Definition of Automatisms

1. Noun. (plural of automatism) ¹

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Definition of Automatisms

1. automatism [n] - See also: automatism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Automatisms

automatic washer
automatic writing
automatical
automatically
automaticities
automaticity
automatick
automaticness
automatics
automating
automation
automations
automatise
automatised
automatism
automatisms (current term)
automatist
automatistic
automatists
automatization
automatizations
automatize
automatized
automatizes
automatizing
automatograph
automaton
automatonlike
automatons
automatous

Literary usage of Automatisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"In these the following points were observed: automatisms varied somewhat with the nature of the activity in question, cg, in writing, lips and tongue ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"The following table is designed to exhibit the distribution of automatisms among the different parts of the body, as well as to show the order of frequency ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Such sudden experiences are duo in part to a pronounced sensibility with tendency to automatisms and suggestibility of the passive type. ..."

4. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"automatisms. Semi-somnambulism is characterised by the continuity of consciousness with that of the waking state and by the appearance of various ..."

5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"Children not only manifest more automatisms than adolescents on the ... For example, children are ten times as prone to head-automatisms as adolescents. ..."

6. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1900)
"I. VERBAL MARTIAN automatisms I have described in the preceding chapter, and will not now return to it, the birth of the Martian language, ..."

7. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1901)
"Teleological automatisms. — The spontaneous phenomena of this category, possessing as a common characteristic a practical utility for Helene more or less ..."

8. The Consciousness of Communion with God: A Study in the Psychology of Religion by Gilbert Lee Pennock (1919)
"automatisms: Self-hypnosis: Extatic Intoxication. ... The theory of automatisms underlies most of the other psychological explanations and itself leads ..."

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