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dis•tract•i•bil•i•ty

Pronunciation: (di-strak"tu-bil'i-tē), [key]
—n. Psychiatry.
inability to sustain one's attention or attentiveness, which is rapidly diverted from one topic to another: a symptom of a variety of mental disorders, as manic disorder, schizophrenia, or anxiety states.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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