alienism

English Thesaurus

1. the quality of being alien (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	curiousness, foreignness, strangeness,
definition	:	the quality of being alien or not native (noun.attribute)

2. an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness (noun.cognition)

hypernym	:	psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology,
definition	:	the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders (noun.cognition)

domain usage	:	archaicism, archaism,
definition	:	the use of an archaic expression (noun.communication)