attention deficit disorder

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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).

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