alienism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: al=ien=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

alienism, n. 

•  The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.  [1913 Webster]

  "The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism."  [1913 Webster]
•  The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

alienism

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.