Surrealism is pure psychic automatism.
Source: tatoeba (11280816)
Automatism
/ɔːˈtɒmətɪzəm/
Synonyms for "automatism" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
automatic controlautomatic writingautomationautomatizationbad habitblind impulsecharacteristiccompulsivenessconditioningcreature of habitcustomcybernationecholalia
Strong matches (19)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (31)
poltergeistismpracticepraxispsychographypsychorrhagyreflex actionsecond natureself-actionself-activityself-determinationself-directionself-governmentself-motionself-propulsionself-regulationsheer chemistryspirit manifestationspirit rappingstereotypestereotyped behavior
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Translations
14 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تِلْقَائِيَّة noun (acting automatically)
Belarusian
1 entries- аўтаматы́зм noun (acting automatically)
Bulgarian
1 entries- автомати́зъм noun (acting automatically)
Catalan
1 entries- automatisme noun (acting automatically)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自動性 /自动性 noun (acting automatically)
Czech
1 entries- automatismus noun (acting automatically)
French
1 entries- automatisme noun (acting automatically)
German
1 entries- Automatismus noun (acting automatically)
Italian
1 entries- automatismo noun (acting automatically)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិ noun (acting automatically)
Polish
1 entries- automatyzm noun (acting automatically)
Russian
1 entries- автомати́зм noun (acting automatically)
Spanish
1 entries- automatismo noun (acting automatically)
Ukrainian
1 entries- автомати́зм noun (acting automatically)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.
Source: wiktionary
[G]eneralising 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. The simplest instance of an automatism is the phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion, so-called.
Source: wiktionary