AUTOMATISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("automatism" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

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