Autism
English
Etymology
Coined in 1912 by Swiss psychiatrist Paul Bleuler (1857-1939) from Latin autismus from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autos, “self”).
Noun
Autism (usually uncountable; plural Autisms)- (clinical psychology) Bio-neurological disorder that is observable in early childhood with symptoms of abnormal self-absorption, characterised by lack of response to other humans and by limited ability or disinclination to communicate and socialize.
Synonyms
- (clinical psychology): mindblindness, on the spectrum (slang)
Derived terms
Thesaurus
acquisitiveness; airy nothing; alienation; anesthesia; autistic thinking; avoidance mechanism; bashfulness; blame-shifting; bubble; careerism; catatonia; chill; chilliness; chimera; cold blood; cold heart; coldheartedness; coldness; compensation; coolness; daydream; deadpan; deception; decompensation; defense mechanism; deluded belief; delusion; dereism; dereistic thinking; dispassion; dispassionateness; displacement; dissociability; dissociation; dream; dream vision; dreamery; dreamland; dreamworld; dullness; ego trip; egotism; emotional deadness; emotional insulation; emotionlessness; escape; escape into fantasy; escape mechanism; escapism; false belief; fantasizing; fantasy; flight; flight of fancy; frigidity; frostiness; graspingness; greed; heartlessness; iciness; ideal; idealism; ideality; idealization; ignis fatuus; illusion; imaginative exercise; immovability; impassibility; impassiveness; impassivity; impracticality; incompatibility; individualism; inexcitability; insociability; interest; isolation; lack of affect; lack of feeling; lack of touch; misbelief; misconception; mopishness; moroseness; narcissism; negativism; objectivity; obtuseness; overcompensation; passionlessness; personal aims; personal ambition; personal desires; personalism; pipe dream; play of fancy; poker face; possessiveness; privatism; projection; psychotaxis; quixotism; quixotry; rationalization; remoteness; resistance; romance; romanticism; self-absorption; self-admiration; self-advancement; self-centeredness; self-consideration; self-containment; self-deceit; self-deception; self-delusion; self-devotion; self-esteem; self-indulgence; self-interest; self-interestedness; self-jealousy; self-occupation; self-pleasing; self-seeking; self-serving; self-solicitude; self-sufficiency; selfishness; selfism; social incompatibility; sociological adjustive reactions; soullessness; spiritlessness; straight face; sublimation; substitution; sullenness; trick; trip; uncommunicativeness; uncompanionability; uncongeniality; unemotionalism; unexcitability; unfeeling; unfeelingness; unfriendliness; ungeniality; ungregariousness; unimpressibility; unimpressionableness; unpassionateness; unpracticalness; unrealism; unreality; unresponsiveness; unsociability; unsociableness; unsusceptibility; unsympatheticness; untouchability; utopianism; vapor; visionariness; wish fulfillment; wish-fulfillment fantasy; wishful thinking; withdrawal; wrong impression
