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AUTOMATISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("automatism" is a kind of...):
reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)