avoidant
Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
Adjective
- Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
- Then as the cranes, that to Riphæan mountains Might fly in part, and part towards the sands, These of the frost, those of the sun avoidant, One folk is going, and the other coming, - 1867, Dante Alighieri, “The Divine...
Origin
Etymology tree English avoid Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin -āns Old French -antbor. Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ant English -ant English avoidant From avoid + -ant.
Forms
Derived
avoidantly avoidant personality avoidant personality disorder cold-avoidant cold avoidant conflicted avoidant exploitable-avoidant exploitable avoidant hypersensitive avoidant nonavoidant phobic avoidant self-deserting avoidant unavoidant
Noun
- A person who exhibits avoidance.
- But unlike schizoids, with whom they are sometimes confused, avoidants are actually eager to socialize. The reason they hang back is their worry that they are personally unappealing[…] - 2011, Samuel Barondes, Making...
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(psychology) A person who exhibits a dismissive-avoidant or fearful-avoidant attachment style.