automaticity
- noun
- /ˌɔːtəˈmætɪsɪti/
- Specialized
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automación
- Playing the piano with automaticity means a musician can perform complex pieces without conscious effort, focusing on emotion instead.
Examples
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When learning to drive, a student eventually develops the automaticity to operate the vehicle without thinking about each action.
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Similarly, Logan and Klapp (1991) suggested that the automaticity of concepts is dependent on the number of presentations.
Academic text (2002) -
The Europeans naturally pressed for a rapid return of U.S. forces and for automaticity in launching a full-scale military response to an attack.
Academic text (2009) -
Deeny et al. offered the explanation that skilled athletes require less cortico-cortical communication to execute a task than novices, reflecting the development of efficient task-specific strategies that display a relatively high level of automaticity.
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Typewriters allowed for the automaticity of typing, enabling writers to focus more on ideas than the mechanics of writing.
Synonyms
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Use of machines or computers to do work without people helping
How Automatic
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Morphology
Etymology
The word automaticity comes from auto- 'self', automatic 'working by itself', and the ending -ity which makes a noun meaning 'a state or quality'. So automaticity is the state of a machine or system that works 'by itself' without human control, like an automatic coffee machine.