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 | ||