English noun: alienism | |||
1. | alienism (cognition) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology | ||
Domain usage | archaicism, archaism | ||
2. | alienism (attribute) the quality of being alien | ||
Synonyms | alienage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | curiousness, foreignness, strangeness | ||