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passive-aggressive personality disorders

passive-aggressive personality disorders is the plural of passive-aggressive personality disorder.

Meaning of passive-aggressive personality disorder

Noun

passive-aggressive personality disorder (usually uncountable, plural passive-aggressive personality disorders)

  1. (usually) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations.
    Synonyms:
    PAPD

Questions about passive-aggressive personality disorders

What is passive-aggressive personality disorders the plural of?
Passive-aggressive personality disorders is the plural of passive-aggressive personality disorder.

Words near passive-aggressive personality disorders in the dictionary

  1. passive voice
  2. passive voices
  3. passive-aggression
  4. passive-aggressive
  5. passive-aggressive personality disorder
  6. passive-aggressive personality disorders
  7. passive-aggressively
  8. passive-aggressiveness
  9. passive-aggressivist
  10. passive-aggressivists
  11. passive-aggressivity

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