autist
See also: Autist
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔː.tɪst/
Noun
autist (plural autists)
- An autistic person, a person with autism.
- 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:
- Most autists are not artists, as most artists are not autists; but in the chance of their coming together […] there must, I think, be an interaction between the two, so that the art takes on some of the strengths and weaknesses of autism […]
- 2011, W M Bernstein, A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis:
- Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.
- (Internet slang, offensive, derogatory, often self-deprecating) A person characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.
- autists arguing about 'muh graphics'
Translations
person with autism
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑu̯ˈtɪst/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: au‧tist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Related terms
Romanian
Adjective
autist m or n (feminine singular autistă, masculine plural autiști, feminine and neuter plural autiste)
Declension
Declension of autist
Declension
Swedish
Noun
autist c
- (dated) an autist (person with autism)
- (Internet slang, derogatory or self-deprecatory) an autist
Usage notes
"Autistisk" (autistic) or "... som har autism" (who has autism) or "... med autism" (with autism) is more common in modern times.
Declension
Declension of autist | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | autist | autisten | autister | autisterna |
Genitive | autists | autistens | autisters | autisternas |
References
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