autist

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See also: Autist

English

Etymology

From autism +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔː.tɪst/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔːtɪst

Noun

autist (plural autists)

  1. 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.
  2. (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'

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Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English autist.

Pronunciation

Noun

autist m (plural autisten, diminutive autistje n)

  1. autist, person with autism

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French autiste.

Adjective

autist m or n (feminine singular autistă, masculine plural autiști, feminine and neuter plural autiste)

  1. autistic

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite autist autistă autiști autiste
definite autistul autista autiștii autistele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite autist autiste autiști autiste
definite autistului autistei autiștilor autistelor

Noun

autist m (plural autiști)

  1. someone who is autistic

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative autist autistul autiști autiștii
genitive-dative autist autistului autiști autiștilor
vocative autistule autiștilor

Swedish

Noun

autist c

  1. (dated) an autist (person with autism)
  2. (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
nominative genitive
singular indefinite autist autists
definite autisten autistens
plural indefinite autister autisters
definite autisterna autisternas

References

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