avoidantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /əˈvɔɪdənt/

形容詞

avoidant (comparative more avoidant, superlative most avoidant)

1. Exhibiting avoidance; avoiding something.
   • 1867, Dante Alighieri, “The Divine Comedy”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., Purgatorio‎, volume 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Canto 26, lines 43-46, p. 167:

     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,

派生語

名詞

avoidant (plural avoidants)

1. A person who exhibits avoidance.
   1. (psychology) A person who exhibits a dismissive-avoidant or fearful-avoidant attachment style.
   • 2011, Samuel Barondes, Making Sense of People, page 46:

     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 […]