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alienism
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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- The fact of being a foreigner; alien status or character; otherness.
- The study of mental disorders and their treatment; the branch of medicine dealing with this; = "psychiatry".
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Origin
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late 18th century. From either alien or alien + -ism
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