automaticity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
automaticity (countable and uncountable, plural automaticities)
- The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required.
- (medicine) The ability of the heart muscles to contract independently of each other when separated or in unison when reattached in whole or in groups.
- The process of one thing automatically following another.
- 2006, Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, Select Committee on Public Administration Minutes of Evidence[1]:
- No, donations and loans absolutely are not a means, with any automaticity, of getting a peerage, but they are not a bar to getting a peerage, and to some extent that is what we exist for.
- 2011, Government response to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Report on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill[2]:
- The Committee's proposal for automatic registration would represent a significant shift away from the present system of elector-led application and voluntary registration, to a system of automaticity with an opt out.
Translations[edit]
the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required
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