Definition of Autistic

1. Adjective. Characteristic of or affected with autism. "Autistic children"

Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Autism

Definition of Autistic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or suffering from autism. ¹

2. Noun. A person suffering from autism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autistic

1. one who is affected with autism [n -S]

Medical Definition of Autistic

1. Pertaining to or characterised by autism. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autistic

authouress
authouresses
authourise
authourity
authourize
authours
authourship
auths
autie
auties
autism
autism spectrum disorder
autism spectrum disorders
autisms
autist
autistic (current term)
autistic disorder
autistic parasite
autistic spectrum disorder
autistically
autistics
autists
auto
auto-
auto-changer
auto-da-fe
auto-de-fe
auto-ethnocide
auto-forwarding
auto-immune

Literary usage of Autistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1915)
"What keeps autistic thinking in the healthy person within certain limits is in fact logical thinking." " Where the balance between affectivity and logical ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1915)
"What keeps autistic thinking in the healthy person within certain limits is in fact logical thinking." " Where the balance between affectivity and logical ..."

3. A Study for the Times: An Inquiry Into Thought and Motive by W. Duncan McKim (1920)
"It has been variously described as the “logic of the feelings,” as “autistic” (selfish) thinking, and as musing or dreaming. This is the kind of thinking ..."

4. The Ungeared Mind by Robert Howland Chase (1919)
"AUTISM OR autistic THINKING. AT the outstart it may be stated for the benefit of the general reader who has not had previous knowledge of our subject that ..."

5. Mental medicine and nursing for use in training-schools for nurses and in by Robert Howland Chase (1915)
"CHAPTER VIII COMPLEXES; DREAMS; autistic THINKING Complexes.1—While the stream of consciousness is an ..."

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