Ocnophil
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ocnophil is a noun meaning (psychoanalysis) A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.
Meaning
(psychoanalysis) A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.
Example Sentences
Coordinate term: philobat
People who need other people around them much of the time are people whose well-being depends massively on the feelings of others towards them. This alarms the philobats (the spacebats), but the ocnophils (the homebodies) like it that way.
Word Forms
- ocnophils
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include psychocentric, oikophobe, avoidant, cynophobe, neophobic, normopath.
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