Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun alienism

2 senses of alienism

Sense 1
alienism -- (an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness)
       => psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine -- (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

Sense 2
alienage, alienism -- (the quality of being alien)
       => foreignness, strangeness, curiousness -- (the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner")