different between automatism vs involuntariness
automatism
English
Etymology
From automat(on) + -ism.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???t?m?t?z?m/
Noun
automatism (countable and uncountable, plural automatisms)
- Acting automatically or involuntarily.
- The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
- The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.
- (psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 200:
- generalising this phenomenon, Mr Myers has given the name of automatism, sensory or motor, emotional or intellectual, to this whole sphere of effects, due to ‘uprushes’ into the ordinary consciousness of energies originating in the subliminal parts of the mind.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 200:
- (art) A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
Related terms
- automaticism
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French automatisme
Noun
automatism n (uncountable)
- automatism
Declension
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involuntariness
English
Etymology
involuntary +? -ness
Noun
involuntariness (uncountable)
- The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
Antonyms
- voluntariness
References
- involuntariness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- involuntariness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- nonuniversalist
involuntariness From the web:
- what is moral involuntariness
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