MEANING
The ability of a familiar process or action to occur with little deliberate attention.
Use it for
a practised skill requiring little conscious effort; behaviour that runs without deliberate planning
Words that belong together
- automaticity of reading
- develop automaticity
On the page
Repeated practice increased the automaticity of the routine, freeing attention for errors.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- automaticity
Usage notes
Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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