Sekirov Dictionary

avoidant

/əˈvɔɪdənt/

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

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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
A person who exhibits a dismissive-avoidant or fearful-avoidant attachment style.

adjective1

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Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
- Then as the cranes, that to Riphaean 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

forms

avoidants · more avoidant · most avoidant

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