'autism' definitions:
Definition of 'autism'
(from WordNet)
noun
(psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people
Synonyms of 'autism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquisitiveness,
- airy nothing,
- alienation,
- anesthesia,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bashfulness,
- blame-shifting,
- bubble,
- careerism,
- catatonia,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- chimera,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compensation,
- coolness,
- daydream,
- deadpan,
- deception,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- displacement,
- dissociability,
- dissociation,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamery,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dullness,
- ego trip,
- egotism,
- emotional deadness,
- emotional insulation,
- emotionlessness,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- false belief,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- heartlessness,
- iciness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impracticality,
- incompatibility,
- individualism,
- inexcitability,
- insociability,
- interest,
- isolation,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of touch,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mopishness,
- moroseness,
- narcissism,
- negativism,
- objectivity,
- obtuseness,
- overcompensation,
- passionlessness,
- personal aims,
- personal ambition,
- personal desires,
- personalism,
- pipe dream,
- play of fancy,
- poker face,
- possessiveness,
- privatism,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rationalization,
- remoteness,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-absorption,
- self-admiration,
- self-advancement,
- self-centeredness,
- self-consideration,
- self-containment,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- self-devotion,
- self-esteem,
- self-indulgence,
- self-interest,
- self-interestedness,
- self-jealousy,
- self-occupation,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-solicitude,
- self-sufficiency,
- selfishness,
- selfism,
- social incompatibility,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- straight face,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- sullenness,
- trick,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- uncompanionability,
- uncongeniality,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unfriendliness,
- ungeniality,
- ungregariousness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- unpassionateness,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unresponsiveness,
- unsociability,
- unsociableness,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- utopianism,
- vapor,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- wrong impression