automaticity

plural automaticities

1. countableuncountableThe ability to do things without occupying the mind with the low level details required.
2. countableuncountablemedicineThe ability of the heart muscles to contract independently of each other when separated or in unison when reattached in whole or in groups.
3. countableuncountableThe process of one thing automatically following another.

   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.

   2006, Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, Select Committee on Public Administration Minutes of Evidence

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   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.

   2011, Government response to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s Report on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill