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aprosexia (ay-pruh-SEK-see-uh) - n., the abnormal inability to sustain attention.


No sex involved, and its presence in the word is entirely coincidental: it was coined from Ancient Greek roots a-, not + prosechein, turn one's attention to something, where that -ch- is a χ.

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