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ALIENISM

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being alienplay

Synonyms:

alienage; alienism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):

curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illnessplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):

psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

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