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ASPERGER'S SYNDROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)