ASPERGER'S SYNDROME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years; characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("Asperger's syndrome" is a kind of...):

disturbance; folie; mental disorder; mental disturbance; psychological disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness)