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automatic writing

noun

  1. writing performed without apparent intent or conscious control, especially to achieve spontaneity or uncensored expression.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of automatic writing1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

Rather than retreat, she seduced him by falling into a trance and pretending to succumb to a bout of automatic writing.

The myth is that the strangeness of On the Road comes from an off-the-cuff American style of “automatic writing.”

Two years before his death Adrian Borlsover developed, unknown to himself, the not uncommon power of automatic writing.

One of the most common methods of exploring the subconscious mind is the method of automatic writing.

I simply testify now to the accuracy of all those statements in her paper in regard to her automatic writing.

One of them, who knew about my automatic writing, asked me to read what had come to me.

At first, she communicated by automatic writing; later we established direct-voice communication.

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