alienism
NounSynonyms:
alienage
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Noun (2)
- an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illnessType of psychiatry, psychopathology
- the quality of being alienSynonyms: alienageType of foreignness, strangeness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Al′ien·ism (…), noun
1. The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism.— James Kent
2. The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54