Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to disintegrate; disintegrating.
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- adjective Losing
cohesion or unity. - adjective psychology Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes.
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- adjective tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts
Etymologies
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They had a very rare condition on the autistic spectrum, called disintegrative disorder.
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They had a very rare condition on the autistic spectrum, called disintegrative disorder.
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They had a very rare condition on the autistic spectrum, called disintegrative disorder.
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Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( "disintegrative") and centripetal ( "integrative") tendencies.
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Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( "disintegrative") and centripetal ( "integrative") tendencies.
CONTENTS 2007
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Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( 'disintegrative') and centripetal ( 'integrative') tendencies.
Editorial 2001
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Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( 'disintegrative') and centripetal ( 'integrative') tendencies.
Background Documents 2000
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Instead, the challenge is to maintain a healthy equilibrium between centrifugal ( "disintegrative") and centripetal
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This is one reason why Wing is supportive of proposed changes in diagnosis, to be implemented in 2013, which will assimilate Asperger's syndrome and several of the confusing autism sub-groups childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified, for example into one definitive diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder.
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It is a bitter opposition to that class of doctrinaires who are inimical to the welfare of the commonwealth; who sneer at it holiest memories, defy its laws, and assault its courts; who wave the red flag of destruction at the whole social, industrial and political organism; and who see naught that is good, save in such policies and measures as may be of disintegrative and revolutionary aspect .
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010
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