NOUN
- any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
How To Use automatism In A Sentence
- This machine is fully automatism number controlled, its operation is handy , andits cutting is exact.
- Six patients described an aura, and three were noted to have automatisms.
- Like many midcentury abstractionists, he was influenced by the Surrealist idea of automatism, which he incorporated into his early works.
- He sums up his discussion of automatisms (automatic writing and so on) by saying that they ‘represent a class of instances in which apparent mental causation fails.’
- I remember how Robert Motherwell didn't like the term abstract expressionism and preferred abstract automatism.
- He said in cases of defence of amnesia or automatism, the court had to carefully scrutinise all evidence.
- The barrister added another issue the defence could well raise was that of non-insane automatism, a condition brought about ‘as a result of the combination of drink and drugs he consumed.’
- Alarm limit temperature system, it will automatism running when over the limit temperature.
- Automatism is often regarded as a defence to crime rather than as an essential component of criminal conduct.
- His esthetic interests ran to European Surrealism, and with William Baziotes and Jackson Pollock he began to experiment with nontraditional ways of making art, including automatism.
