ALL meanings of automatist
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A a - noun automatist the action or condition of being automatic; mechanical or involuntary action. 1
- noun automatist Philosophy. the doctrine that all activities of animals, or of humans and animals, are entirely controlled by physical or physiological causes in which consciousness takes no part. 1
- noun automatist Physiology. the involuntary functioning of an organic process, especially muscular, without apparent neural stimulation. 1
- noun automatist Psychology. the performance of an act or actions without the performer's awareness or conscious volition. such an act, as sleepwalking. 1
- noun automatist a method of producing pictorial art, as paintings and collages, associated chiefly with the dadaists and surrealists, in which the artist strives to allow the impulses of the unconscious to guide the hand in matters of line, color, and structure without the interference of conscious choice. 1
- verb with object automatist to make automatic. 1
- abbreviation AUTOMATIST automate. 1
- noun automatist Of or characterized by automatism. 1
- noun automatist One who performs automatic writing. 0