automatism
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
An involuntary, purposeless action carried out without conscious awareness, often during a seizure.
Witnesses described lip-smacking and fumbling automatisms during the episode, pointing to a focal seizure.
Law noun
An involuntary act performed without conscious control, capable of negating criminal liability.
Counsel raised automatism, contending that a hypoglycaemic episode had rendered his actions wholly involuntary.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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