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attention deficit disorders

attention deficit disorders is the plural 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.

Questions about attention deficit disorders

What is attention deficit disorders the plural of?
Attention deficit disorders is the plural of attention deficit disorder.

Words near attention deficit disorders in the dictionary

  1. attentate
  2. attentates
  3. attentats
  4. attention
  5. attention deficit disorder
  6. attention deficit disorders
  7. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  8. attention deficit hyperactivity disordered
  9. attention economies
  10. attention economy
  11. attention getter

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