What is the difference between automaticity and automatic?
automaticity | automatic | Derived terms |
The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required.
(medical) The ability of the heart muscles to contract independently of each other when separated or in unison when reattached in whole or in groups
Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
(computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
(maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
A car with automatic transmission.
A semi-automatic firearm.
Automatic is a derived term of automaticity.
As nouns the difference between automaticity and automatic
is that automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required while automatic is a car with automatic transmission.As an adjective automatic is
capable of operating without external control or intervention.automaticity
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Noun
(wikipedia automaticity)automatic
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Alternative forms
* automatickAdjective
(-)- The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
- The reaction was automatic : flight!
Synonyms
* (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctiveAntonyms
* (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntaryDerived terms
* automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automaticalNoun
(en noun)- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .