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Noun: alienism  'ey-lee-u,ni-zum
  1. The quality of being alien
    - alienage
     
  2. [archaic] An obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness

Derived forms: alienisms

Type of: curiousness, foreignness, psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology, strangeness

Encyclopedia: Alienism