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autismlike

autismlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of autism.

Adjective

autismlike (comparative more autismlike, superlative most autismlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of autism.
    • The idea that vaccines cause autism got a boost in March, when the Centers for Disease Control settled with the parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling on the grounds that her autismlike symptoms were caused by vaccines that aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder.2008 May 23, Andrew Solomon, “The Autism Rights Movement”, in New York Magazine
    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates developmental disabilities like autism or autismlike disorders, such as Asperger's syndrome, will strike one in every 150 children, and four out of five of them will be boys.2009 December 2, ABC News, “Can a New Diet Help Autistic Kids?”, in ABC News

Forms of autismlike

comparativemore autismlike
superlativemost autismlike

Origin of autismlike

From autism + -like.

Questions about autismlike

What does autismlike mean?
Autismlike means resembling or characteristic of autism.
What part of speech is autismlike?
Autismlike is an adjective.

Words near autismlike in the dictionary

  1. autism spectrum disorder
  2. autism spectrum disordered
  3. autism spectrum disorders
  4. autismal
  5. autismland
  6. autismlike
  7. autismogenic
  8. autisms
  9. autist
  10. autistic
  11. autistic disorder

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