automatism
Meaning of automatism
- the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention.
diabetic patients who commit crimes while hypoglycaemic may be able to plead automatism
mid 19th century: from French automatisme, from automate ‘automaton’, from Greek automatos ‘acting of itself’ (see automaton).
Information about automatism
- It is a name.
- The plural form of automatism is: automatisms.
- Languages in which automatism is used:
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Hyphenation of automatism
au-toma-tism
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- automatism is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of automatism
- Spanish: automatismo
- French: automatisme
- Italian: automatismo
Words that rhyme with automatism
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