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

1 sense of automatism

Sense 1
automatism -- (any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy))
       => reaction, response -- (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age")