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ALIENISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being alien
Synonyms:
alienage; alienism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
