An
inability to
concentrate on any one thing for very long. A person with a
short attention span could be said to be
suffering from aprosexia. This word is the same in
Spanish as it is in
English.
Coined in
1889 as "an
impairment of the
attention due to
nasal obstruction" it has come to mean general
inability to concentrate for whatever reason.
It is also a
rock band from central
New Jersey made up of four siblings from a family of nine.