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INFANTILE AUTISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rare but serious syndrome of childhood characterized by withdrawal and lack of social responsiveness or interest in others and serious linguistic deficits
Example:
there is considerable dispute among specialists concerning infantile autism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("infantile autism" is a kind of...):
autism ((psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people)
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