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nature-deficit disorders

nature-deficit disorders is the plural of nature-deficit disorder.

Meaning of nature-deficit disorder

Noun

nature-deficit disorder (countable and uncountable, plural nature-deficit disorders)

  1. A disputed class of behavioural problems in modern children, ascribed to the fact that they spend little time outdoors.
    • Nature-deficit disorder severely hampers, if not fully blocks, development of environmental literacy. Environmental communicators, educators and interpreters talk about their work as an 'antidote' or 'cure' for nature-deficit disorder.2010, Richard R. Jurin, Donny Roush, Jeff Danter, “Developing Your Environmental Literacy”, in Environmental Communication: Skills and Principles for Natural Resource Managers, Scientists, and...
    Synonyms:
    NDD

Forms of nature-deficit disorders

alternative formnature deficit disorders

Questions about nature-deficit disorders

What is nature-deficit disorders the plural of?
Nature-deficit disorders is the plural of nature-deficit disorder.

Words near nature-deficit disorders in the dictionary

  1. nature's scythe
  2. nature's scythes
  3. nature's toothbrush
  4. nature's toothbrushes
  5. nature-deficit disorder
  6. nature-deficit disorders
  7. nature-friendly
  8. nature-lover
  9. nature-lovers
  10. nature-positive
  11. naturecraft

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