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English

Etymology

From , coined 1912 by Swiss psychiatrist w:Paul Bleuler|Paul Bleuler (1857-1939) from {{term|sc=Grek|αυτός||tr=autos-|self|lang=el}} (comb. form) + {{term|sc=Grek|-ισμός|tr=-ismos|lang=el}} suffix "of action" or "of state".

Noun

Abnormal self-absorption, first observed in childhood, characterised by lack of response to people and limited ability to communicate.

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Chinese traditional/simplified: {{t|cmn|孤獨症|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}}, {{t|cmn|孤独症|tr=gū dú zhèng|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}}, {{t|cmn|自閉症|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}}, {{t|cmn|自闭症|tr=zì bì zhèng|sc=Hani|xs=Mandarin}}
Croatian: {{t+|hr|autizam|m}}
Dutch: {{t+|nl|autisme|n}}
Estonian:
Finnish:
French:
German: {{t+|de|Autismus|m}}
Greek: {{t+|el|αυτισμός|tr=autismós|sc=Grek}}
Hebrew: {{t|he|אוטיזם|sc=Hebr}}
Hungarian:
Interlingua: {{t-|ia|autismo|xs=Interlingua}}
Italian:

Japanese: {{t|ja|自閉症|sc=Jpan}} ({{t|ja|じへいしょう|tr=jiheishō|sc=Jpan}})
Korean: {{t|ko|자폐증|sc=Hang}}
Latin:
Malay: {{t-|ms|autisme|xs=Malay}}
Norwegian:
Polish:
Portuguese:
Romanian:
Serbian:
: Cyrillic: {{t|sr|аутизам|sc=Cyrl}}
: Roman:
Spanish:
Turkish:

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English autism \autism\ n.
1. (Med.) a mental disorder characterized by inability to
engage in normal social interactions and intense
self-absorption, and usually accompanied by other symptoms
such as language dysfunctions and repetitive behavior.

Note: autism usually manifests itself at an early age
[PJC]

2. behavior showing an abnormal level of absorption with
one's own thoughts and disregard for external realities.
[PJC]

WordNet autism
n : (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by
communication disorders and short attention span and
inability to treat others as people

Moby Dictionary
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

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