oppositional defiant disorder

English

Noun

oppositional defiant disorder (countable and uncountable, plural oppositional defiant disorders)

  1. (medicine, psychiatry) A childhood disorder characterized by an ongoing pattern of anger-guided disobedience, hostility, and defiant behavior toward authority figures.
    Synonym: ODD (initialism)
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