ASPERGER'S SYNDROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Asperger's syndrome mean? 

• ASPERGER'S SYNDROME (noun)
  The noun ASPERGER'S SYNDROME has 1 sense:

1. a psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years; characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior

  Familiarity information: ASPERGER'S SYNDROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPERGER'S SYNDROME (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)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with X-linked autism and Asperger's syndrome.

(NLGN4X wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)