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alienation |
alienation of affection |
alienator |
aliene |
alienee |
alienism
| alienist
| alienor
| aliethmoid
| aliethmoidal
| alife
alienism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alienism has 2 senses
- alienism(n = noun.cognition) Array - an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness; Array is a kind of psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology
- alienism(n = noun.attribute) alienage - the quality of being alien; Array is a kind of curiousness, foreignness, strangeness
CIDE DICTIONARY
alienism, n.
- The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. [1913 Webster]"The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism." [1913 Webster]
- The study or treatment of diseases of the mind. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
alienism
Extraneousness
N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.
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