automaticity

English

Etymology

From automatic +‎ -ity.

Noun

automaticity (countable and uncountable, plural automaticities)

1. The ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required.
2. (medicine) The ability of the heart muscles to contract independently of each other when separated or in unison when reattached in whole or in groups.
3. The process of one thing automatically following another.
   • 2006, Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, Select Committee on Public Administration Minutes of Evidence‎^[1]:

     No, donations and loans absolutely are not a means, with any automaticity, of getting a peerage, but they are not a bar to getting a peerage, and to some extent that is what we exist for.

   • 2011, Government response to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Report on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill‎^[2]:

     The Committee's proposal for automatic registration would represent a significant shift away from the present system of elector-led application and voluntary registration, to a system of automaticity with an opt out.

Translations

the ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required

• Polish: automatyczność (pl) f
• Spanish: automaticidad f