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attention-deficit disorder

attention-deficit disorder is the alternative form of attention deficit disorder.

Meaning of attention deficit disorder

Noun

attention deficit disorder (countable and uncountable, plural attention deficit disorders)

  1. A syndrome formerly thought to affect children only, but now known also to affect adults, that is characterized by frequent, chronic distractibility, and either inattentiveness or hyperactivity (fidgeting), now merged with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Forms of attention-deficit disorder

pluralattention-deficit disorders

Questions about attention-deficit disorder

What is attention-deficit disorder the alternative form of?
Attention-deficit disorder is the alternative form of attention deficit disorder.

Words near attention-deficit disorder in the dictionary

  1. attention spans
  2. attention whore
  3. attention whored
  4. attention whores
  5. attention whoring
  6. attention-deficit disorder
  7. attention-deficit disorders
  8. attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  9. attention-grabbing
  10. attention-seeker
  11. attention-seekers

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