单词 | automatonism |
释义 | automatonismn. Now rare. = automatism n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality > automatic or mechanical quality mechanicalness1693 mechanicality1779 automatonism1820 automacy1847 automatism1857 automaticity1873 robotism1923 robotry1924 1820 Champion 2 Dec. 798/1 (title) An essay on human automatonism. 1893 G. M. Gould Meaning & Method Life iii. 60 There is control of the organism by an intelligence above all organisms. They are never reduced to an automatonism. 1925 W. B. Yeats Vision i. iv. 78 [Shelley] was subject to an automatonism which he mistook for poetic invention, especially in his longer poems. 1947 Nature 18 Jan. 80/2 Anyone who has dealings with a tame raven will find it difficult to dispense with the word ‘intelligence’ in any analysis of its conduct. Is it automatonism when it tweaks the cat's tail? 2002 Guardian (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Features section) 15 Sleepwalking..happens typically when the child undergoes an incomplete arousal from deep sleep. The conscious brain is not engaged, leading to a state of non-insane automatonism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820 |
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