automatic writing

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of automatic writing

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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automatic writing

What began five decades ago as a few folders of slides and fliers has grown into an apartment-filling archive encompassing color theory, UFOs, automatic writing and more.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

But if I just want to get started without any aids, the best way is to use the method of automatic writing.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 6, 2023

This is not a new project—one could trace it to the early twentieth-century Surrealist tradition of automatic writing, or perhaps even further.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 29, 2018

I couldn’t change my lens, so I started writing my understanding of these gifts, which included automatic writing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2017

Stowe later claimed to have written as if in a trance, similar to the Spiritualists’ automatic writing: “I did not write it … God wrote it … I merely did his dictation.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock