Crossword-Solution: AUTOMATISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Automatism | n. | The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “AUTOMATISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being automatic | 1 answer |
| incogitance | 4 answers |
| ABSENCE of thought | 6 answers |
| ACTION, type of | 30 answers |
| Abstraction | 51 answers |
| Inattention | 68 answers |
| ignorance | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with AUTOMATISM (5)
That Agatha, who of all women of my acquaintance has the best balanced mind, had been reduced to a condition of automatism appeared to be certain.
Myers has given the name of _automatism_, sensory or motor, emotional or intellectual, to this whole sphere of effects, due to “uprushes” into the ordinary consciousness of energies originating in the subliminal parts of the mind.
Interpreting the unknown after the analogy of the known, it seems to me that hereafter, wherever we meet with a phenomenon of automatism, be it motor impulses, or obsessive idea, or unaccountable caprice, or delusion, or hallucination, we are bound first of all to make search whether it be not an explosion, into the fields of ordinary consciousness, of ideas elaborated outside of those fields in subliminal regions of the mind.
The relief is something wonderful, and the pleasurable effects of the emotions are experienced to the highest degree.” There is one form of sensory automatism which possibly deserves special notice on account of its frequency.
Graphic automatism of a fully developed kind is rare in religious history, so far as my knowledge goes.
Quotes with AUTOMATISM (3)
They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism which makes us unconscious of a great part of our movements. In order to take one single step, it seems, we displace an infinite number of muscles, and yet, thanks to this automatism, we are unaware of it. The same thing happens in our relations with other people.
The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.
It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to level out all expression into the most generic, anonymous, and abstract formulas, to dilute meaning, to blunt the edge of expressiveness, extinguishing the sparks that shoots out from the collision of words and new circumstances.