🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

자폐 스펙트럼의

Pronunciation / Transliteration: japye seupekteureum-ui

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Autistic/ɔːˈtɪs.tɪk/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 자폐 스펙트럼 아동을 위한 프로그램을 운영한다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or characteristic of autism, a developmental condition that affects communication, social interaction, and behavior.

    "The school provides specialized support for autistic students."
As noun
  1. 1

    An autistic person (used often within the neurodiversity community as an identity-first term).

    "She is a proud autistic advocate for disability rights."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Greek root 'autos' meaning 'self', combined with the German psychiatric suffix '-istisch' (coined by psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 as 'autsch' or 'autismus' to describe withdrawal into one's own inner world). It evolved through mid-20th-century clinical psychology to describe developmental conditions characterized by challenges with social interaction and communication.

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