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ALIENISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alienism mean?
• ALIENISM (noun)
The noun ALIENISM has 2 senses:
1. an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
2. the quality of being alien
Familiarity information: ALIENISM used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):
psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being alien
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
alienage; alienism
Hypernyms ("alienism" is a kind of...):
curiousness; foreignness; strangeness (the quality of being alien or not native)
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