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English noun: alienism

1. alienism (cognition) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness


Broader (hypernym)psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology


Domain usagearchaicism, archaism

2. alienism (attribute) the quality of being alien


Synonymsalienage


Broader (hypernym)curiousness, foreignness, strangeness









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