automatism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: au=tom=a=tism

CIDE DICTIONARY

automatism, n. 

 The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

automatism, n.
1 Psychol. the performance of actions unconsciously or subconsciously; such action.
2 involuntary action.
3 unthinking routine.

Etymology

F automatisme f. automate AUTOMATON

THESAURUS

automatism

Ouija, automatic control, automatic writing, automation, automatization, bad habit, blind impulse, characteristic, compulsiveness, conditioning, creature of habit, custom, echolalia, echopraxia, force of habit, habit, habit pattern, habitude, impulse, instinct, instinctiveness, involuntariness, levitation, materialization, pattern, peculiarity, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, practice, praxis, psychography, psychorrhagy, reflex action, second nature, self-action, self-activity, self-determination, self-direction, self-government, self-motion, self-propulsion, self-regulation, sheer chemistry, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, table tipping, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, trance speaking, trick, unwilledness, usage, use, way, wont