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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Automatism \Au*tom"a*tism\, n.
     The state or quality of being automatic; the power of
     self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action.
     Specifically: (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of
     matter.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  automatism
       n : any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious
           thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior
           seen in psychomotor epilepsy)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

















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