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AIWS

AIWS is the initialism of Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

Meaning of Alice in Wonderland syndrome

Noun

Alice in Wonderland syndrome (uncountable)

  1. A disorienting neurological condition involving micropsia, macropsia, or size distortion of other sensory modalities.
    • Three cases of "Alice in Wonderland" syndrome (metamorphopsia) are presented and described as a presenting symptom of infectious mono nucleosis in a preadolescent male and in two late teenage females.1977 February, Stuart M. Copperman, “" Alice in Wonderland" Syndrome as a Presenting Symptom of Infectious Mononucleosis in Children: A Description of Three Affected Young People”, in Clinical...
    Synonyms:
    Todd's syndrome

Questions about AIWS

What is AIWS the initialism of?
AIWS is the initialism of Alice in Wonderland syndrome.

Words near AIWS in the dictionary

  1. aiwain
  2. aiwan
  3. aiwans
  4. Aiwo
  5. Aiwoo
  6. AIWS
  7. Aix
  8. Aix-en-Provence
  9. Aix-les-Bains
  10. aiya
  11. aiyah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: AIWS (page history and authors); Alice in Wonderland syndrome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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